Tim Sommer RockAndRollGlobe.com Author Page

Hard Rock Psychedelics Rock

Are Hawkwind The World’s Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Band?

April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 Tim Sommer 2 Comments Dave Brock, Glenn Branca Ensemble, Hall of Mountain Grill, Hawkwind, Jam Bands, King Kong, Lemmy, Lemmy Kilmister, Sonic Youth, Space Ritual, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stereolab, The Feelies

A new collection affirms the brilliance of post-Lemmy Hawkwind

Read more

Misfits Or Martians: Walk Among Us Turns 40

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 20 Eyes, Blue Oyster Cult, Danzig, Doyle, Glen Danzig, Jerry Only, Klaus Nomi, Misfits, The Bongos, The Contortions, The Misfits, the Offs, The Raybeats, the Speedies, the Student Teachers, Tina Peel, Walk Among Us

The debut LP from Lodi, NJ’s horror punk kings has been out of print for years; does it deserve a resurrection?

Read more

Beatle Music Journalism

Where are Our War Beatles?

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 Tim Sommer 3 Comments Chuck D, Crisis in Ukraine, Dave Grohl, free elections, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Langford, picket lines, protest, The Beatles, Ukraine, voting rights, war, Woody Guthrie

How current events highlight the utter impotency of Rock and Pop

Read more

Heavy Metal Music Journalism

Voices Under Siege: “We Really Need to Close the Sky”

March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Crisis in Ukraine, I Miss My Death, IMMD, Kyiv, Olena Kryvoviaz, symphonic metal, Ukraine

We speak with Ukrainian singer Olena Kryvoviaz of IMMD from inside war-torn Ukraine

Read more

Happy 50th, Blue Öyster Cult!

February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 Tim Sommer 3 Comments 1972, 50th Birthday, Amon Duul II, Atom Heart Mother, Blue Oyster Cult, Captain Beefhart, Columbia Records, Deep Purple, Imaginos, MC5, Rolling Stone, The Grateful Dead, The Stooges, Yardbirds

What if the MC5 and the Grateful Dead had been one band?

Read more

Music Journalism

The Only Rock & Roll Hall of Fame That Matters is the One in Your Heart

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Tim Sommer 2 Comments 2022, Blaine, Carl Palmer, Chad Smith, Cosimo Mattassa, Dolly Parton, Hal Blaine, John Bonham, Kate Bush, Keith Moon, Leon Russell, Mitch Mitchell, Neil Peart, Nile Rodgers, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, Roger Taylor, Stewart Copeland, The Clash

(And a few words about musical excellence)

Read more

Music Journalism

Dear Bruce Springtseen and John Mellencamp: What the Actual Eff Were You Thinking?

February 2, 2022April 3, 2022 Tim Sommer 82 Comments Bruce Springsteen, Did You Say Such a Thing, John Mellencamp, Van Halen

Their collaborative single is strictly a one-eyed pinch off a popular Van Halen hit

Read more

Classical Electronics

ALBUMS: Grace, Gravity and the Sad/Happy of the Strange and Simple

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2022, Bjarni Biering, Charles Ives, Curious Music, John Cage, La Monte Young, Moondog, The Andvaka Suite

Icelandic composer Bjarni Biering engages us with everyday beauty

Read more

Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock

Pink Floyd Surprise Drop Twelve Post-It Notes

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Tim Sommer 1 Comment Amsterdamse Bos Free Concert 26 June 1971 (Live), Copenhagen Live 23 Sept 1971, Copenhagen Vol II Live 23 Sept 1971, David Gilmour, Embryo San Diego Live 17 Oct 1971, KB Hallen, Live 5 June 1971; Live Lyon 12 June 1971, Live at Grosser Saal, Live in Montreux 18 & 19 Sept 1971; KB Hallen, Live in Rome Palaeur 20 June 1971, Mauerspechte Berlin Sportpalast, Musikhalle Hamburg West Germany 25 Feb 1971, Nick Mason, Over Bradford Pigs on the Groove Bradford University Live 10 Oct 1971, Pink Floyd, Quebec City 1971, Richard Barrett, Roger Waters, The Screaming Abdabs, They Came in Peace Live Leeds University 1970 Washington University 1971, Tokyo 16 March 1972

We listened to all of ‘em so you don’t have to

Read more

How England Made The Beatles

December 23, 2021December 23, 2021 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Birmingham, England, George Harrison, Get Back, John Lennon, Liverpool, Manchester, Paul McCartney, Pete Best, Ringo Starr, Skiffle, Stuart Sutcliffe., The Beatles, Tim Sommer

The Beatles are not a divinity, but the product of causes and conditions

Read more

Dean Friedman: Ariel, Matzoh Balls and American Lullabys

December 13, 2021December 13, 2021 Tim Sommer 1 Comment Barenaked Ladies, Crazy Eddie, Dean Friedman, Dom Flemons, Half Man Half Biscuit, Melody Maker, NME, Paramus, Paramus Park, Sounds, Spiral Scratch, The Buzzcocks, Trouser Press

Sometimes a pickle is just a pickle

Read more

The Last Secret of The Beatles

October 21, 2021April 3, 2022 Tim Sommer 6 Comments Beatles, Brian Epstein, George Harrison, John Lennon, Neil Aspinall, Paul McCartney, Pete Best, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

Why was Pete Best really fired?

Read more

Art Pop Electronic Experimental Post-Punk

ALBUMS: Immersion Surrenders to Beauty, and Achieves Transcendence

September 22, 2021September 23, 2021 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2021, Colin Newman, Dennis Wilson, Immersion, Krautrock, Laetitia Sadier, Malka Spigel, Nanocluster, Nanocluster Vol. 1, Pet Sounds, Robin Rimbaud, Ronald Lippok and Bernd Jestram, Scanner, Stereolab, Swim, Tarwater, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The White Album, Ulrich Schnauss, Wire

With the help of such collaborators as Laetitia Sadier, Ulrich Schnauss, Tarwater and Scanner, Nanolcuster Vol. 1 is so beautiful, exotic, immediate and compelling as to defy description

Read more

All Art Is Political: A Chat With Devo’s Gerald V. Casale

August 17, 2021August 17, 2021 Tim Sommer 4 Comments Akron, Daniel Ellsberg, Devo, Gerald V. Casale, I'm Gonna Pay U Back, Jihad Jerry and the Evil Doers, Kent State, Mark Mothersbaugh, The Pentagon Papers

An extensive and honest chat with the New Wave pioneer

Read more

Music Journalism

Remembering the Glory Days of MTV News

August 1, 2021August 2, 2021 Tim Sommer 14 Comments Alan Hunter, Doug Herzog, Hugo Largo, JJ Jackson, John Norris, Kurt Loder, Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn, MTV, MTV News, Tabitha Soren, Tim Sommer

In honor of today being the 40th anniversary of MTV’s debut on cable television, the Rock & Roll Globe is proud to bring you this “remastered” edition of Tim Sommer’s inside account of working for MTV News in the 80s and early 90s

Read more

← Previous