Rock 101

Nothing London or British this week. Instead we head west across the Irish Sea for some Sprints.

Flea got shafted when he agreed to appear on a hit record. That never happened again.

Dirty records have been with us since we started making records. Hokum blues is a particularly naughty genre.

How long is the longest album ever? A lot longer than you’d expect.

It’s a relatively quiet New Music–it’s the usual midsummer lull–but that doesn’t mean there isn’t new music worth checking out.

John Frusciante has been in and out of the Red Hot Chill Peppers several times over the last 30 years. What’s that story?

Travis Barker of Blink-182 had an extremely close shave in 2008. He’s one of the luckiest people on earth.

The Fall was certainly an acquired taste but that didn’t stop Mark E. Smith’s bunch from being one of the UK’s most influential post-punk bands,

Quad, a fifty-year-old recorded music format is trying for a comeback. Good luck with that.

I did I manage to miss Men I Trust for this long?