Tom MacDonald took the internet by storm several years ago by triggering every sensibilty known to liberals. He calls girls girls. He calls boys boys. Crazy, I know. But whether you are a hardcore blue haired liberal or a gun waving, monster tr...

This band needs no introduction. If you've never heard of them please come out from whatever rock you have been living under. Appetite For Destruction, the debut album from Guns and Roses, released in the summer of 1987 to rocky reviews. MTV di...

Green Day did in 1994 what most punk bands only wish they could have done (the wishes they kept in their hearts for fear of being called a wanna be sell out), they hit the mainstream with a veracity like no other punk band before them. From mus...

On November 18th, 1993 one of the greatest live music performances took place and most people didn't know it was happening. Five months later, with the death of Kurt Cobain, the performance began to take on a life and meaning of its own. 30 yea...

The final Beatles song Now and Then has finally been released. What started out as a demo from John Lennon recorded sometime before his death in 1980, revisited again in 1995 by the three surviving Beatles at the time (George Harrison later pas...

I keep a short list of celebrities that I would love to meet in person tucked away in my brain for good measure, Post Malone is on that list. His ability to reach deep within himself and draw his listeners into the process of expression is admi...

A lot can happen in 12 years. That's how long its been between Blink 182's last album Neighborhoods and their latest, One More Time. The original members Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge, and Travis Barker, are back together and in full force. Does thi...

On September 7, 1996 Tupac Shakur was shot while in the passenger seat of his car moments after attending a Mike Tyson boxing match at the MGM in Las Vegas, Nevada. Six days later, on September 13 he succumbed to his wounds leaving behind a leg...

I am not a "Swiftie" by any stretch of the imagination. However, I have to admit I am highly intrigued by the whirlwind of media surrounding her new found relationship with NFL player Travis Kelce. All she did was show up to a football game! An...

The year was 1999 and while everyone was bracing for the end of the world due to the oncoming doom called Y2K the Red Hot Chili Peppers released an album called Californication. The title track of the record did not describe the end of the worl...

FOR VIRGINIA AND TAYLORThese are the words you will find faintly printed on the back of this record's cover. The songs contained within the cover would not be so faint. Dave Grohl reaches into his deepest depths to bring to surface the grie...

This week I had the opportunity to sit down with long time friend Miggy Sanchez, founding member and lead vocalist of Relent. In 2016 Relent hit the ground running and they have the highway miles, air miles, and stories to show for it. Their mu...

It's 1991. The pop musical landscape is ever changing and at the forefront of this change comes a band from Seattle via a short San Diego flight, Pearl Jam. The only question I had in the fall of 1991 concerning this album was, "Do I purchase t...

Few artists can boast the way that Kanye West can, that is both a fact and a play on words. With the kind of impact he has had in the worlds of fashion, rap, and hip hop it's easy to see why he would boast. However, everything Kanye had built u...

Country musician Anthony Oliver (you know, the guy with the red beard) has recently taken youtube and social media outlets by storm with the song Rich Men North of Richmond . But why, or how? He's not part of a well oiled media campaign. He's n...

On Leap Year (February 29th) of 2020, just weeks before COVID 19 brought the city of San Antonio to its knees MXPX came through and brought the city to its feet. Energetically led by Mike Herrera, bassist and lead vocalist of the band, the 23 s...

The music world recently lost the life and voice of Sinead O’Connor in July of 2023. Her most commercially successful song "Nothing Compares 2 U" was on her second studio album "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got." The title of the album did not ...

When Nirvana’s second album cleverly titled Nevermind came burstinginto my living room in 1991 it did not stop there. It took me somewhere Inever thought it could. Eighteen years later that journey came to an abruptend. I have the s...