Tony Rettman

Alison Braun, Michael Ochs Archive Like many who were born between the release of The Godfather and the end of the Vietnam War, I never had a chance to witness the 'classic' incarnation of those ...

Myriam Santos Today, Southern California punk legends Bad Religion return to record stores with True North, their 16th studio album. You can stream the entire album here. As with all the ...

Amazon If you ask any aficionado of heavy and arcane tuneage to rattle off a list of the burliest and best sounds to come out of Britain in the early '70s, the words Incredible Hog are bound to ...

Zone Creative, Getty Images On the surface, punk rock is supposed to be anti-materialistic, anti-dogma and anti-tradition. That's all fine and good, but even punkers can't deny when the ...

Amazon (2) For someone such as myself who likes to both revisit and discover sounds from before my time, the amount of reissues in the realm of hard rock and metal was not enough in 2012, but ...

Chips & Beer It's tough to pick up a print music magazine at this point in time and think of it as a legitimate channel of information and not some hunk of crap done up in the name of ...

Getty Images/The Cool Groove At its genesis, rock 'n' roll was a visceral art form; an antidote to overblown Broadway musicals of the time and the mind-numbing pop pap coming from Patti ...