I’ve written many times before that it’s often the cover of a record that makes me pick it up in the store, especially when I’m flipping through the used bins. In the case of Chainsaw’s record Massacre it wasn’t the front cover, but the back cover that really drew me in: There’s a lot to […]
Tag: Rock
Led Zeppelin – “The Song Remains The Same” (1976)
I know, I know… more Led Zeppelin, you’re thinking. “Yeah, sure, but this is the Japanese pressing,” he said sheepishly, knowing it did not make the situation seem cooler, at least not to most people. We spent a long weekend up in Bellingham, Washington, near the Canadian border, and while there I popped into the […]
From The Vault – Interview with Dream Wife’s Rakel Mjöll
Back in the late 2010s I wrote a bit for RVK On Stage, a cool English-language magazine focused on the Icelandic music scene. Alas, the print version only lasted four issues, and while the website hung around for a while after that, when I tried the url earlier today my browser flashed all kinds of […]
The Dogmatics – “Everybody Does It” (1986)
Where could The Dogmatics have hoped to fit in during the mid-1980s? New wave had given way to pop and hair metal was still in the rising portion of its Icarus trajectory. Minneapolis was pumping out indie hits under the radar and a nascent grunge scene was bubbling under in Seattle, a revolution in the […]
Led Zeppelin – “Seattle 1972” (2023)
Without realizing it, over the years I ended up purchasing physical copies of most of Led Zeppelin’s recorded Seattle shows. As best I can tell the might Zep played here 11 times if you count an appearance in Woodinville in 1969 for the Seattle Pop Festival. Six of the shows, those from 1972 to 1977, […]