‘Music’ Archives
UPDATED: Bret Michaels in ‘Stable’ Condition after a “Massive Headache”
LOS ANGELES (YBH.ME) - Former Poison frontman, and current "The Celebrity Apprentice" star Bret Michaels, was rushed to the hospital with a "massive headache" on Thursday. Once there, doctors discovered that Mr. Michaels had extensive bleeding at the base of his brain stem. He is currently listed in critical, but stable, condition, according to [...]
RIP – ALEX CHILTON
From Urdead2meEXPIRED: 03/17/10 – Alex Chilton, 59, was making preparations to play the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas when he had a heart attack and died in his home of New Orleans.Maybe you don’t know his name. You might not even know his recent music. He sort of became a cult status performer over the last [...]
A Rockin’ Spring Has Sprung
Tis' a busy time for the indie music fan, with the SXSW pilgrimage underway, the Record Store Day exclusives shopping list shaping up, Coachella warm-up shows are popping up across the west, and a release calendar which answers the question of whether or not some of the big debuts of recent years were mere flukes, or if the blogosphere [...]
RIP – T-BONE WOLK
FROM URDEAD2MEEXPIRED: 02/27/10 – Tom “T-Bone” Wolk, 60, didn’t choose to be a musician. It chose him. Wolk was the guy with “the hat” playing bass guitar with Hall & Oates in all those videos on MTV in the early 80’s. Admit it. You remember.Like many guys Wolk’s age, he got the urge to play rock and roll watching [...]
Everything Old Is Old Again, But Updated
It seems that rock music has a 20-25 year latency period after initial popularity before it is revived by the next generation and resold as homage-to or under-influence-of the originals. Sadly for me, when I was in my late teens, crap from the late 60s was being regurgitated, so I had to endure bad psychedelia and classic rock rip-offs in massive [...]
