Like the Hall of Fame that bears its name, for me Rock’n’Roll is a catch-all category for the the music that influences me. I played music professionally for fifteen years and I’m the son of a professional musician, so I have many opinions on the subject.
This week features the world’s oldest drag queen; musicians from Russia, Italy, Norway, Romania, and England; and the passing of our Headliner, Mudcrutch founder Tom Leadon.
This week, we say goodbye with three songs from our Headliner, Parliament-Funkadelic’s singer Fuzzy Haskins. This show is also salute to all the artists who passed in the week prior, from March 11th through March 17th. Our main stage features an all-time great song with a murderous writer; our Festival Stage brings you musicians who passed in Mexico, Brazil, and England; and in the Mosh Pit tonight we thrash to South African rap, Brazilian rock, and British Metal.
This week features novelty music heavyweights; European, Jamaican, and Peruvian artists; music that goes to eleven; and the end of an era with the passing of our Headliner, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Gary Rossington.
We’re talking about a band that had just three meaningful albums in ’81, ’82, and ’84. Only two of their singles even went Top Ten.
Open your mind and let me make the case for why Styx belongs in the Rock Hall just as much as The Doobie Brothers (2020 inductees) or any other classic rock band already in the Hall.
David Bowie and Cannabis: Space Oddity, the Rochester Raid, & Medical Marijuana When news broke today of the death Sunday
Big Marijuana Looks Like Marley, Snoop, Willie, and Rihanna Ever since the popularization of marijuana in America, there has always
Pot Smoking Happened at Symphony, World Did Not End We’ve been covering the story of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO)
I used to be a Twitter power user (22K followers), but since Elon Musk turned it into a Nazi pub, I then migrated to Threads, until Mark Zuckerberg began throttling political speech and forced me off that, Facebook, and Instagram. Then TikTok went and kissed the Felon’s ring, so bye bye, there, too. You can find me primarily now on BlueSky, where I’m verified as @RadicalRuss.com. I’m also on Mastodon, kinda, and YouTube with our live stream and video archive.
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