The Badge

Thanks Bob Dylan, for featuring my Esquire piece about !

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a13119247/bob-dylan-trouble-no-more-bootleg-series-volume-13-review/

in The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/bob-dylans-first-day-with-tangled-up-in-blue

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A crazy positive review for The Last Day of Summer from Goldmine: The Music Collector's Marketplace!!!

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Happy 27th birthday to The Badge's 1997 album Digital Retro. The band's founder Jeff Slate has called it his "first fully realized artistic statement." Be sure to check it out on iTunes (http://t.co/fVn3mCp5Sv), Amazon (http://amzn.to/2dYDNi7), your favorite streaming service and independent record stores everywhere!

Happy 19th birthday to The Badge's 1997 album Digital Retro. The band's founder Jeff Slate HQ has called it his "first fully realized artistic statement." Be sure to check it out on iTunes (http://t.co/fVn3mCp5Sv), Amazon (http://amzn.to/2dYDNi7), your favorite streaming service and independent record stores everywhere!

My first piece for Men's Journal. They asked me to write about rock 'n' roll style, and specifically my love of rings.

https://www.mensjournal.com/style/rings-for-men

Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision is out! It was once again a thrill and an honor to contribute to the book included in this amazing box set. I chronicled the long, amazing history of Electric Lady Studios, but the real highlight are the film, the Atmos mixes and, of course, Jimi’s music.

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in 2016: David Bowie’s Lost Soul Album for Esquire.

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a48869/the-making-of-david-bowies-lost-soul-album/

Happy birthday . Here’s the 2016 primer to his music that I put together for Esquire with country legend ⁦‪Rodney Crowell‬⁩.

Link: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/news/a43518/hank-williams-primer-tom-hiddleston-rodney-crowell/

in 2020 I spoke to Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason about his then new band Saucerful of Secrets for Billboard!

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9451149/nick-mason-saucerful-secrets-interview

in 2019 I interviewed the legendary Joan Jett for the cover of Rock Cellar Magazine, about her amazing career, and her love of the guitar (and especially Gibsons)!

https://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/joan-jett-interview-guitar-punk-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/

Peter Frampton once again proved himself to be one of the best interviews in rock ‘n’ roll, and one of the nicest guys around. Read our chat in The Daily Beast - about Kamala, Mr. Orange, the price of fame and the Rock Hall - and catch him on tour! https://www.thedailybeast.com/peter-framptons-still-alive-on-donald-trump-kamala-harris-and-taylor-swift

Cool new Vevo Footnoes version of Oasis’ Live Forever https://youtu.be/DSXDq_KigEI?si=C_oH7UVNoba-pgYT and if you wanna know more check out my The Daily Beast feature marking the 30th anniversary of the band’s debut, Definitely Maybe. https://www.thedailybeast.com/oasis-liam-and-noel-gallagher-still-feel-unstoppable-30-years-later

Reunited Oasis Brothers: Why We Don’t Look Back in Anger Noel and Liam Gallagher are back touring. Now they tell the Daily Beast why 30 years just slid away.

in 1965, The Beatles invented the stadium tour, as told to me for Esquire by Ringo, Julian Lennon, Vivek J. Tiwary, Giles Martin, Chuck Gunderson and more.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a29162/beatles-stadium-tour/

Nevermind - check out the whole “The Last Day of Summer” album via the DSP of your choice! Featuring Earl Slick (official), Dave Stewart, Duff McKagan, Mick Talbot, Ron Blair and more, MOJO called it “an album of classy, Greenwich Village-scented folk and soul.”

https://open.spotify.com/album/43C85FMlUKpsQgWOEZ1Hp9?si=ilvcN3rHQXy5LgTBvhbi-Q

Calling all Paul Weller fans! The new ⁦‪Rock Cellar Magazine‬⁩ features my recent, lengthy chat with the man, and I have to admit it’s one of my favorites of the many I’ve been lucky enough to have with him. Check it out: ‘I Can’t Be Here Pi***ng About’

Q&A: Paul Weller on Turning ’66’ with New Album, Sobriety and Leaving a Legacy of Meaningful Music: ‘I Can’t Be Here Pi***ng About’ - Rock Cellar Magazine Talking to Paul Weller these days is a pleasure. But that wasn’t always the case. Back in the early 90s, when our paths first crossed, I remember it being awkward. Stilted. He was still Paul Weller, of course, the man who fronted The Jam, before blowing them up to take a sharp creative turn with t...