Indie Roundup | Ten Tremendous Tracks to Try Today
Dead Can Dance get mythical, Cellar Darling hold a wake, Accept take a break, Burning Witches cry, Opeth see ghosts, Fast Romantics head south and much more in today's...
Late-Night TV Music (Diversity Edition) | Nov. 13, 2018
Diversity is always a good thing. And diversity is exactly what you got from Tuesday's late-night TV music lineup, which veered wildly from proggy art-rock to down-home country and...
KISS | Animalize Promo Poster
Comedy and tragedy can be two sides of the same coin. This post-apocalyptic promo poster for KISS’s 1984 album Animalize illustrates that quite succinctly, I would say. On the...
Plasmatics | Ultra-Rare Wendy O. Williams Fan Club Poster
In 1980, I bought The Plasmatics’ first album New Hope For the Wretched. It was an import on the Stiff America label. I know this for a fact because...
Aerosmith | Vintage Midnight Special Poster
I am old enough to remember when Aerosmith were America's greatest rock ’n’ roll band. And to remember watching them playing Dream On during The Midnight Special late on...
John Cougar | American Fool Promo Poster
Now, of course, he's John Mellencamp. But back in 1982 he was still John Cougar. And his fifth album American Fool was his commercial breakthrough, thanks to hits like...
The Rolling Stones | Vintage Atlantic Albums Promo Poster
Fun Fact: Some Girls, the last indisputably great Rolling Stones album, came out 42 years ago today — June 9. 1978. Sadly, I don't have a Some Girls promo...
The Go-Go’s | Rare 1982 Western Canada Tour Poster
For my money, The Go-Go's didn't get the respect they deserved. At least, not back in the day. When the all-female L.A. quintet first appeared in the early ’80s,...
U2 | Rare October Promo Poster
I am so old that I remember hearing U2’s I Will Follow on the radio for the first time. So old that I remember buying their first album Boy...
Bachman-Turner Overdrive | 1976 Tour Poster
I started going to concerts in the mid-’70s — and hometown heroes Bachman-Turner Overdrive were one of the first bands I went to see. Hey, I was 12! And...
Mick Jagger | 1985 She’s The Boss Promo Posters
"It looks like a Third World dictator press conference!" cracked Mick Jagger as I plunked down my Sony tape deck amid the dozens of microphones and recorders strewn on...
Tom Waits | Mule Variations Double-Sided Promo Poster
Of the hundreds of music and film posters in my collection, this is one of my favourites. Partly because I'm a huge Tom Waits fan — who isn't? —...
Talking Heads | The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads 1982 Promo Poster
This week, Talking Heads — or at least someone claiming to be Talking Heads — started an Instagram account. So naturally, people immediately started nattering about a reunion tour. I'll...
The Rolling Stones | Steel Wheels Poster Collection
I have a fair number of Rolling Stones posters. But for some reason, I have more stuff from 1989’s Steel Wheels than anything else. No idea why. It is...
Elvis Costello | Armed Forces Promo Poster
Unlike many of my friends, I was too dumb to go see Elvis Costello when he toured Canada with the original Attractions shortly after he put out his first...
