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All Fired Up: Pat Benatar at 70

January 10, 2023January 10, 2023 Kara Tucker 1 Comment 70th Birthday, All Fired Up, Crimes of Passion, Get Nervous, Gravity's Rainbow, Heat of the Night, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Innamorata, Invincible, John Cougar, Long Island, Love Is A Battlefield, Mike Chapman, Neil Giraldo, Pat Benatar, Rick Derringer, Roger Capps, Shadows of the Night, The Rattling Sabres, Wide Awake in Dreamland, You Better Run

Looking back on the career of a rock ‘n’ roll feminist

Pop Rock

Billy Joel Returns To Texas

October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 Stephanie Hernandez 0 Comments 2022, A Matter of Trust, Allentown, Billy Joel, Concert, Hicksville, Houston, It's Still Rock 'n' Roll To Me, Just The Way You Are, Long Island, Minute Maid Park, My Life, Piano Man, Pressure, Texas, The Entertainer, You May Be Right

The Piano Man makes his debut at Houston’s Minute Maid Park

Emotional Punk Rock aka Emo Hardcore Heavy Metal Post-Hardcore

Cosmopolitan Blood Loss: Glassjaw’s Worship & Tribute At 20

July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 Ian King 0 Comments 2002, 20th Anniversary, Daryl Palumbo, Emo, Glassjaw, Justin Beck, Long Island, Ross Robinson, Todd Weinstock, Warner Bros., Worship & Tribute

Looking back at the Long Island post-hardcore mavens’ complicated sophomore classic

Folk Pop Remembrance

Harry Chapin: The Story of a Life

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment 1981, Cat's In The Cradle, Do Something: The Harry Chapin Story, Harry Chapin, Jimmy Carter, Long Island, RIP, Tom Chapin, When In Doubt, World Hunger Year

40 years after tragedy struck on the Long Island Expressway, Jim Sullivan reminds us why the beloved singer-songwriter was so much more than one hit song

Hip Hop Rap

How’d You Get My Name and Number?: De La Soul Is Dead at 30

May 20, 2021May 21, 2021 Daniel Offner 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, De La Soul, De La Soul Is Dead, Long Island, Maseo, Plug 1, Plug 2, Plug 3, Posdnuos, Prince Paul, Tom Waits, Tommy Boy, Trugoy, Trugoy The Dove

Still unavailable on streaming services, the second De La Soul albums nevertheless remains a high-water mark in hip-hop creativity

Rock Rockabilly

Lee Rocker: Go Cat Go!

February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2021, Airstream, Brian Setzer, Gather Round, Lee Rocker, London, Long Island, Rockabilly, Slim Jim Phantom, Stray Cats, Uptight Records

COVID-19 couldn’t keep this Stray Cat out of the house

Remembrance Rock

Farewell, Mr. Mahoney

September 15, 2019September 15, 2019 Ron Hart 0 Comments Billy Joel, Eddie Money, Levittown, Long Island, RIP

A loose, loving salute to Levittown legend Eddie Money

Remembrance

FIVE ALBUMS RELEASED ON 9/11/01

September 11, 2019April 3, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 9/11, Bob Dylan, Jay-Z, Long Island, Mercury Rev, Slayer, The Moldy Peaches

These LPs endured their arrival on the worst day in American history to become classics with a tragic asterisk

New Wave Pop Punk Rock

Surfing the New Wave

December 5, 2018December 5, 2018 j. poet 1 Comment Documentaries, FM, Long Island, Radio, WLIR

Documentary on influential Long Island radio station WLIR-FM 92.7 arrives on DVD

Rock

River of Dreams at 25

August 9, 2018August 14, 2018 Andrew Hamlin 0 Comments 1993, 25th Anniversary, Billy Joel, Long Island, Piano pop

An observance on the last Billy Joel pop album