During the mid-to-late 1980’s in the UK there were a bunch of bands playing intelligent, jangly, melodic pop music. A lot of so-called people found most of these bands (like the Loft, the Bodines, Close Lobsters) to be overly awkward, unpleasantly earnest or too pencil-necked to be pop musicians;...

Finding out that the release of the Brunettes new album Paper Dolls is somewhat imminent was enough to cheer us up on a cloudy, slightly manic Tuesday. Looks like it comes out in February of next year, which will be here before you know it once we get the holidays out of the way. Even [...]

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry confirmed rumors that singer Steven Tyler has left the band. In an interview with The Las Vegas Sun, Perry said “Steven quit as far as I can tell.” Tyler, who suffered a broken shoulder at an August concert in Sturgis, SD, said recently that he planned to “work on the...

Although Louis Marshall Jones was only around 30 years old when he cut his first acetate for Syd Nathan’s fledgling Dayton, Ohio-based King Records in 1943, he was already known as Grandpa Jones, earning the nickname because he supposedly sounded like an old man when he spoke on the radio, and over...