Blue Oyster Cult

Rock 

Blue Öyster Cult’s New/Old Ghost Stories: Meh 262

April 2, 2024April 2, 2024 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2024, Albert Bouchard, Allen Lanier, Blue Oyster Cult, Buck Dharma, Cactus, Desmond Child, Eric Bloom, Frontiers Music Srl, Ghost Stories, The Good Rats

Why we’d rather hear the BÖC reissues in our imagination

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Folk Rock 

Little Trip To Heaven: Tom Waits’ Closing Time At 50

March 6, 2023 Craig Peters 1 Comment 1973, 50th anniversary, Asylum Records, Blue Oyster Cult, Closing Time, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Hollies, Tom Waits

A look back at Tom Waits’ masterful (and uncharacteristic) debut

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Music Journalism Radio 

The Best Sequences in Album Rock and Beyond

April 30, 2022May 1, 2022 Jim Sullivan 7 Comments Blue Oyster Cult, Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen, Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, The Clash, The Kinks, The Wall, The Who

Honoring the art of the mix with Springsteen, the Stones, Prince and more

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Punk 

Misfits Or Martians: Walk Among Us Turns 40

March 29, 2022August 29, 2023 Tim Sommer 1 Comment 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?

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Hard Rock 

Happy 50th, Blue Öyster Cult!

February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 Tim Sommer 5 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?  

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Heavy Metal 

Will It Land On The Black Or The Red?: Riot’s Fire Down Under at 40

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 Nathan Carson 0 Comments Accept, Blue Oyster Cult, Elektra Records, Fire Down Under, Gus Speranza, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Riot, Rush, Spinal Tap

The enduring legacy of 1981’s best American metal album

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Music Journalism 

Famous Quotes Vol. 12: October 2020

October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult, Eric Bloom, Famous Quotes, Hope Sandoval, Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, J.K. Rowling, Jim Sullivan, Mazzy Star, Robert Galbraith, Steve Jones, The Sex Pistols

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

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Blues Heavy Metal 

I’m The King Wolf: Danzig II: Lucifuge At 30

June 26, 2020June 28, 2020 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 1990, Blue Oyster Cult, Chuck Biscuits, Danzig, Danzig II: Lucifuge, Def American, Def Jam, John Christ, Metallica, Ministry, Nirvana, Rick Rubin, Samhain, The Misfits, The Pixies

Danzig’s sophomore mold-breaking blues metal masterpiece still swings low as part of his grand slam album quartet

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Progressive Rock Rock 

Imaginos: Cult-Album Enigma, Titanic Turd, or Both?

July 24, 2018May 20, 2020 Tim Sommer 22 Comments 1988, Albert Bouchard, Blue Oyster Cult, Imaginos, Kiss

Looking at the deep history of a most maligned Blue Öyster Cult LP for its 30th anniversary

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