7 Best Rock Music References In Family Guy
As good news for TV geeks, family guy was renewed by Fox for another season and is still a great source of comedy after nearly 25 years. Meanwhile, the iconic show has successfully embraced numerous musical references and cameos across a wide range of genres, from popular songs to darling indie artists. Of course, iconic […]
The family persists through COVID with tortas and rock music
The following article was originally written in November 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first thing customers hear when they enter Alexander’s: World Famous Tortas is the tinkling of the old-fashioned shopkeeper’s bell. The second is the music. Alexander’s, located at 937 East Rosecrans Ave in the city of Compton, is a […]
Record Store Day turns 15 this weekend
Record Store Day has become nothing short of a global institution in the 15 years since its inception. Shortly after its launch, organizers of the music lover’s party proudly claimed that they had generated more traffic to independent record stores than Christmas. Not only has that boast come true for the event, regularly landing on […]
Vundabar’s Brandon Hagen on the plastic reality of making indie rock music in the TikTok era
Brandon Hagen, vocalist/guitarist for Boston-based alternative rock band Vundabar, has spent the last ten years taking ambiguous existential crises and distilling them into song lyrics. Even so, there are still things in life that are just too hard to describe. “I’ll just show you,” he said Billboard of North Hampton, Massachusetts on a Zoom call, […]
Rush’s ‘Moving Pictures’ Gets The 40th Anniversary Edition Treatment
Rush’s extensive series of 40th anniversary albums continues with an expanded edition of the progressive rock band’s breakthrough 1981 release, “Moving Pictures”, cementing its status as a well-deserved classic album. The album released on April 15 is available to fans in a few separate configurations, including the Super Deluxe Edition, 5LP Deluxe Edition, and Single […]
Niagara Falls loses a legend of the local rock scene
By Don Redmond Published on April 13, 2022 at 10:44 am Niagara Falls lost a local music legend on Monday when Paul Wheeler succumbed to pancreatic cancer. (Photo by Lorne Tontegode) Niagara Falls lost prominence on the local music scene on April 11 when Paul Wheeler succumbed to stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The disease quickly […]
The Go-Go’s Beauty and the Beat changed rock music forever
During the induction of the Go-Go’s at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on October 30, 2021, actress Drew Barrymore spilled a secret: the new wave band’s 1981 album, The beauty and the Beastchanged her life when she heard it at the age of 6. She told the crowd that she “spent hours watching […]
Why rock music is so popular with slot machines
Online slot machines are one of the most popular casino games, they are fun, quick to play and require little skill. There is a wide range of Slot machines on the internet, each with different themes to meet a wide audience with different internets. One type of slot that is becoming increasingly popular with players […]
Jujubee loves his hard rock music
Jujubee’s Kentucky Futurity victory celebration (photo by Amanada Stephens) Hightstown, New Jersey— It’s not uncommon for music to be part of an athlete’s daily training routine. Even when the athlete is a horse. In this case, the trotter of the year 2021, Jujubee. “He likes hard rock,” Jujubee keeper Mike Tabasco said. “We play (Ted) […]
Joey B. Goode and Money Mac Rock Music City to put Bengals in AFC title game
Bengal rookie Evan McPherson (Bengal file photo) through Geoff Hobson as reported by bengals.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Bengals enter next Sunday’s AFC title game on rookie Evan McPherson’s 52-yard field goal that downed the Titans, 19-16 After stuffing fourth-and-first Derrick Henry, Bengals center linebacker Logan Wilson caught cornerback Eli Apple’s deflected pass with 20 […]
Cinderella guitarist Jeff LaBar of Upper Darby dies
It’s a sad week for the regional music scene with the passing of Upper Darby’s Jeff LaBar, best known as the guitarist of Cinderella, one of the most influential artists of the Philly rock and roll scene of the mid-1980s. He was 58 years old. The band, which also included vocalist / guitarist Tom Keifer, […]