Welcome to a new week and another edition of Knock Knock: New Music! Lots of stuff going on in music history this week... 45-RPM records reached a new milestone, as did CD-Players, and the very first commercial FM radio station went on-the-air as well. We found-out about things that go to "11" and how difficult life-in-a-band can be when your drummer keeps spontaneously combusting. Also this week, we celebrate some big birthdays in music including Lou Reed, Johnny Cash, and

Morning everyone and welcome to the weekend! I mentioned in yesterday's edition of Fun-4-Friday that I'm working on sharpening the focus of the Friday feature, which I believe is trending toward retro with a weekly look back at some fun music from the past. Friday, though, is the big day for NEW album releases, so what to do? Why not chat about them over coffee on Saturday morning? Let's give that a try. Today's feature comes complete with a Spotify playlist, so you can h

Hello again and welcome back to Fun-4-Friday! This is still a work-in-progress, as I'm trying to sharpen-the-focus of each of my features. Let's talk music history for this week... I mentioned in Knock Knock: New Music! back on Monday, that 2/18/1998 was the day Robert Smith of The Cure turned into a giant moth and battled a mechanical-Godzilla version of Barbra Streisand in Season One of South Park. That was Episode-12: "Mecha-Streisand." Near the end of the epsiode Kyle Br

Hi there and welcome to a new week! Lots of stuff going-on in music history this week. It started on Sunday Feb. 18th with the 20th-Anniversary of an epic-battle between Robert Smith from The Cure and Barbra Streisand. There's loads else to remember this week, but let's first get to the NEW music! Click on the VIDEO above to start this week's YouTube playlist. London band, Django Django is first-up today with a new single and video off their third studio album, "Marble Skie

Hey everyone... Welcome back to Friday! This is one of my favorite days of the week because it has become the predominant day in the music industry for the release of new albums. That's great timing in my mind, as I love sitting down at my desk on Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and having a first listen to my pile of new music! Before we get to the new stuff, though, let's take a quick spin in the time-machine and see what classic Alternative Rock albums came out th