Saturday nights are about Heaven, dying and getting there, prayer meetings for everlasting salvation. There are those that think otherwise. That this is it, the endgame, Heaven on earth and an everlasting life comes with burning with the devil and turning with vamps. A night of death and rebirth, pleasure and despair. “Dead end soul […]
A Condensed History of Black Rock: Vernon Reid and Jack Bruce Release ‘Spectrum Road’ – A Tribute to Tony Williams
Vernon Reid has known racism. He’s not much different than other African Americans to that extent, nor American Indians, Mexican Americans and on and on. Each group facing racism in varying degrees and places in history. Racism is power and control based on racial difference. Jackie Robinson faced it in baseball. Vernon Reid is a […]
Friend Collector – Safe Skin to New Skin; Punk Band “Delivers Brainbombs and Raises the Terror Quotient” in Return to Bel Air
Upon release of Friend Collector’s debut album – featuring John Carroll graduate Gregory Dembeck – and on the eve of Friend Collector’s performance at CODA Records in Bel Air on Saturday night (the first time Dembeck returns to his hometown to play with New Flesh/FC for an official performance), here is a look back at […]