Category Archives: Rock & Roll

Backbeat (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
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Backbeat (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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BACKBEAT (1994) Starring Sheryl Lee, Steven Dorff, Ian Hart, Gary Bakewell, Chris O’Neill, Scot Williams, Kai Wiesinger, Gertan Klauber, Marcelle Dupruy, John White, Bernard Merrick, Nicholas Tennant, Finola Geraghty, Rob Spendlove, Charlie Caine, Jennifer Ehle, Frieda Kelly, Paul Humpoletz, Christiana Uriarte, Abigail Wrapson, Galit Herskovitz, Stephan Grothgar and Lynn Lowton. Screenplay by Iain Softley, Michael … Continue reading →

Henry Rollins – Out of the Van
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Henry Rollins – Out of the Van

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Henry Rollins Out of the Van by Ronald Sklar “I could grandstand and tell you I’m The Man, but I basically don’t have a life,” Henry Rollins tells me in a recent phone interview. As usual, The Man is being too hard on himself. The rock legend, now in his early forties and still as tough … Continue reading →

Alison Moyet – Voice (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)
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Alison Moyet – Voice (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

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Alison Moyet – Voice (Sanctuary U.K.) Back in 1991, I interviewed Alison Moyet as she was releasing her third solo album HooDoo. At the time, we discussed her biggest international hit, an old-fashioned jazzy sounding cover of Billie Holiday’s “That Ole Devil Called Love.” Although the song topped the charts in most countries outside of the United … Continue reading →

Sammy Hagar – The Essential Red Collection (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)
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Sammy Hagar – The Essential Red Collection (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

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Sammy Hagar – The Essential Red Collection (Hip-O) There are two kinds of Van Halen fans, the ones who like Diamond Dave and the ones who dug Sammy. (Okay, somewhere out there may be a Gary Cherone fan, too, but I doubt it.) I was always a David Lee Roth guy as far as the band … Continue reading →

Fastball – Flip Their Wig
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Fastball – Flip Their Wig

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FASTBALL FLIP THEIR WIG BY SHEILA LUSSIER Miles Zuniga and fellow singer/songwriter Tony Scalzo founded the Austin, TX-based band Fastball nearly a decade ago. They have had much success with five studio albums under their belts and such hit singles as “The Way” and “Out of My Head” (both from their breakthrough 1998 album All the Pain Money Can … Continue reading →

Sarah Hudson – Girl on the Verge
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Sarah Hudson – Girl on the Verge

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Sarah Hudson Girl on the Verge by Jay S. Jacobs Everybody wants to know about Sarah Hudson’s family. Her father, Mark Hudson, along with her uncles, made up the Hudson Brothers, the 70s pop group and TV variety show hosts. Her cousin is movie star Kate Hudson, who is featured in many movies including Almost Famous and How to Lose … Continue reading →

Three Dog Night in Black and White
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Three Dog Night in Black and White

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Three Dog Night In Black and White by Ronald Sklar The feat would be impossible to achieve in today’s market-fragmented world, but back in ’71, the bell-bottomed-and-walrus-mustachioed anthem “Joy To The World,” by Three Dog Night, shone through the polluted air and permeated the culture. In a world already torn every which way but loose, Jeremiah … Continue reading →

Cowboy Junkies – One Soul Now (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)
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Cowboy Junkies – One Soul Now (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

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Cowboy Junkies-One Soul Now (Zoë/Latent) It’s hard to believe that it has been sixteen years since Cowboy Junkies’ second album, the sparse and lovely The Trinity Sessions, became a surprise success and helped to pave the road for alt-country and triple-A radio. That album was recorded live in one night at an abandoned church and mixed blues, … Continue reading →

Mayor of the Sunset Strip (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
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Mayor of the Sunset Strip (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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MAYOR OF THE SUNSET STRIP (2004) Featuring Rodney Bingenheimer, David Bowie, Gwen Stefani, Chris Martin, Coldplay, Courtney Love, Oasis, Brian Wilson, The Doors, Ray Manzarek, Danny Sugarman, Cher, Nancy Sinatra, Mick Jagger, Brooke Shields, Kim Fowley, Cherie Currie, Chris Carter, Tori Amos, Beck, Sonny Bono, Alice Cooper, Michael Des Barres, Pamela Des Barres, Debbie Harry, … Continue reading →

Jonatha Brooke – Back in the Circus (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)
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Jonatha Brooke – Back in the Circus (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

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Jonatha Brooke – Back in the Circus (Bad Dog/Verve) Jonatha Brooke has been out in the folk-pop trenches for almost twenty years, working up a great reputation in music circles, first as half of the acoustic duo The Story and then as a solo artist. Her music has mostly been released independently; only two Story albums and one solo were … Continue reading →