Founded in 1981, the band Yellowjackets put together a unique blend of smooth jazz, acoustic, and traditional folk music that quickly took off and garnered a legion of fans. More than two decades later, the group is still going incredibly strong, with two [...]
Meat Loaf's 1977 album "Bat Out Of Hell" has long become a classic rock record that is as cool as it was almost 30 years ago when it was first released. But it was not always like that. The road to getting this record done and published was [...]
The phenomenon that is "KISS" keeps going and going and going. What started out originally as a unique and radically flashy rock band has turned into a huge corporation over the past 30 years with Gene Simmons seemingly dead-set to milk it for [...]
During the 1963-64 television season, Judy Garland hosted her own variety show on CBS that sadly came to an abrupt end due to stiff competition and Judy's own personal troubles. Perhaps the show was just too out of touch with the impending counter [...]
Among their first prong of HD-DVD releases, Warner Home Video has prepared a disc featuring the movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom Of The Opera." As you may recall I did like this film version quite a bit when it appeared [...]
To me Judas Priest's reunion album "Angel Of Retribution" was the best heavy metal record of the past 10 years, hands down. Not only did the record capture the magic that made Judas Priest one of the greatest acts of the 80s but it also [...]
In the comedy horror spirit inspired by the likes of "Evil Dead" and more recently "Shaun Of The Dead", "Dead And Breakfast" has an uphill battle to achieve the notoriety of those two films. The plot is pretty simple. While [...]
Audioslave, the perfect melding of former Soundgarden front-man Chris Cornell with Tim Commerford, Brad Wilk and Tom Morello, or the former members of Rage Against The Machine–sans-Zach de la Rocha. Bringing together all of these individual musical [...]
1973 was the year the world awakened to the shocking antics of Alice Cooper. Parents tried to keep the shock rocker's music out of their children's hands and kids across the world were mesmerized by the man who would take the stage filled with [...]
Gillian Armstrong's 1986 musical comedy was s mash hit in its native Australia but also managed to gather a serious cult following here in the United States and Europe. Filled with 80s pop-rock tunes and a whole lot of upbeat charisma, "Star [...]
