Latest Stories

• 
  Violent Femmes: These Daddies Haven't Gone Anywhere

  June 29 at 5 a.m.

  Brian Ritchie says that he gets asked a certain question often. Maybe somebody sees him with his long blond hair. Or that he’s carrying a guitar case, which precedes this inevitable exchange: Somebody: You look like a musician. Are you in a band? Ritchie: Yes, I am. Somebody: What band?...

• 
  The Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip

  June 11 at 6:22 a.m.

  Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead’s Long, Strange Trip By Joel Selvin with Pamela Turley 288 pp. Da Capo Press $27 When Grateful Dead singer/guitarist Jerry Garcia died on August 9, 1995 from a heart attack, it probably seemed inconceivable even to diehard Deadheads that the...

• 
  Sire Records Honcho Tells Tales of Ramones, Talking Heads, Pretenders, and Madonna!

  June 7 at 5 a.m.

  Siren Song: My Life in Music By Seymour Stein with Gareth Murphy 352 pp. $28.99 St. Martin’s Press As co-founder of Sire Records in 1966 – and still active in the industry today – Seymour Stein has seen a lot. Just a partial list of artists he’s discovered, scouted, signed,...

• 
  Headbanging at Howie's For Heavy Metal Sundays

  May 11 at 5 a.m.

  Pass through the doors of this small drinking establishment in a nondescript shopping center off 2920 in Spring, and you’re transformed into a low-lit Polynesian wonderland of art, paintings, sculpture, and a large bar with the ingredients to make any of the more than 135 cocktail variations on (and off)...

• 
  Poison Promises Nothing But a "Good Time" on Summer Tour

  May 7 at 5 a.m.

  It’s often said that any rock band has years and years to come up with the material for their first album and just months go do the same for their second. That’s the situation that glam metalers Poison found themselves in during 1988 when faced with the challenge of following...

• 
  New Books See the Beatles in a Whole New Way and Ponder the End of Classic Rock

  April 23 at 5 a.m.

  Visualizing the Beatles: A Complete Graphic History of the World’s Favorite Band By John Pring and Rob Thomas 288 pp. $26.99 Dey Street Books With hundreds of biographies published over decades, there can’t possibly be a completely different way to tell the well-worn story of the Fab Four, right? Wrong...