"You can't kill rock n roll"
The Crossing - July/August/September 2014
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Let's recount what we know:
"Rock n roll ain't noise pollution" - AC/DC
"You can't stop rock n roll" - Twisted Sister
"You can't kill rock n roll" - Ozzy Osbourne
"You can still rock in America" - Night Ranger
"Cities (are) on flame with rock n roll" - Blue Oyster Cult
"I wanna rock n roll all night and party every day" - KISS
"God is the rock that makes me roll" - Stryper
"God gave rock n roll to you" - KISS
"Long live rock n roll" - Rainbow
"Let it rock. Let it roll. Let it go" - Def Leppard
"Things go better with rock" - Autograph
"There's only one way to rock" - Sammy Hagar (I've never been entirely convinced of that, but maybe.)
"I wanna rock" - Twisted Sister
"Rock n Roll!" - Led Zeppelin
"For those about to rock, we (I personally, if I could) salute you" - AC/DC
and
“The world is collapsing around our ears, I turned up the radio” - R.E.M.
"It's the end of the world as we know it, and (we don't feel particularly fine about it)" - R.E.M.
Those last two there just to make you think a little more.
So, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, what exactly are you getting at? What is this business of rock n roll? What can we learn from this vast entity known as rock n roll?
Well, it's far too complicated to get into without going into grave and significant detail. And frankly we don't have all day to get into that.
Because you can't stop rock n roll, I wouldn't have the wherewithal to stand in the way of it and be able to explain it.
So, the best thing to do in these circumstances is to just get out of the way and let the rock roll accordingly...
Recently released and not mentioned in last edition:
* Randy Jackson of Zebra - Empathy for the Walrus: Tribute to the Beatles (Very good!)
* Needtobreathe - 60/50 Oceanway: the Live Room Sessions EP
* Jolie Holland - Wine Dark Sea
* Beartooth - Disgusting
* Centro-Matic - Take Pride in Your Long Odds
* The Lawrence Arms - Metropole
* St. Paul & the Broken Bones - Half the City
* The Homeless Gospel Choir - I Used to be so Young
* Muscle & Bone - Peace and Light EP
* Lost in Society - Let It Sail
* Steve Adamyk Band - Dial Tone
* Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown
* Matt Mays - Coyote
* Eternal Summers - The Drop Beneath
* Empires - How Good Does It Feel EP
* The Belle Brigade - Just Because
* Spanish Gold - South of Nowhere
* Black James - Mountain Boy
* Sohn - Tremors
* The Pierces - Creation
* Swans - To Be Kind
* Brian McGee - Ruin Creek
* Una Walkenhorst - Scars (Daughter of Bob.)
* Boris - Noise
* Strand of Oaks - Heal
* Sam Russo - Storm
* Adam Zwig - Stones, Bones & Skin EP
* The Cynz - Five Mortal Cynz EP
* Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean
* Billie Marten - Ribbon EP
* Mia Dyson - Idyllwild
* Joseph LeMay - Seventeen Acres
* Radio Moscow - Magical Dirt
* Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband
* The So So Glos - Blowout
* The Dead Daisies - S/T
* Bay Side - Cult
* Mimicking Birds - Eons
* Broken Twin - May
* Nothing - Guilty of Everything
* The Family Crest - Beneath the Brine
* 3 Years Hollow - The Cracks
* Emphatic - Another Life
* Rebelution - Count Me In
* The Word Alive - Real
* Anathema - Distant Satellites
* Crash Dang Doodle - Hardly Criminal
* Baby Animals - This is Not the End
* King Buzzo - This Machine Kills Artists
* Crowbar - Symmetry in Black
* The Black Moods - Say It for the Last Time
* The Maine - Forever Halloween (Deluxe.)
* Sharon Corr - Same Sun
* Veruca Salt - The Museum of Broken Relationships EP
* Quiet Riot - 10 EP
* Great White - Saturday Night Special (Mostly covers.)
* Eclipse - Bleed & Scream
* Light My Fire: a Classic Rock Tribute to The Doors
* Steve Hogarth - The Invisible Man: Diaries 1991-1997 (Book.)
* Jim Gaffigan - Obsessed (Comedy album.)
* Marillion - A Sunday Night above the Rain (2 CD's.)
+ White Stripes - Live Under the Lights of the Rising Sun 2000
+ Marillion - Brave Live 2013
+ Woodstock (Blu-ray.)
+ Winter's Tale
7/1
* Bad Suns - Language & Perspective
* Lines West - Stop, Look & Listen
* Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy
* Jim Lauderdale - I’m a Song
* Amy Obenski - Restless
* Mark Kozelek - Live at Biko
* Jonah Tolchin - Clover Lane
* Red Wanting Blue - Little America
* Pink Floyd - The Division Bell (Deluxe.)
* Bon Jovi - New Jersey (Deluxe.)
+ Elton John - The Million Dollar Piano
+ Ride Along
+ The Lunchbox
7/8
* John Mellencamp - Trouble No More: Live at Town Hall
* Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
* Pinnick Gales Pridgen - PGP 2
* Lucky Peterson - I’m Back Again
* Jon Allen – Deep River
* Fink - Hard Believer
* Grand Cousin - S/T EP
* Cloud Boot - Model of You
* Braid - No Coast
* Starset - Transmission
* Sia - 1,000 Forms of Fear
* Ted Nugent - Shut Up & Jam
+ Steve Earle - Live in Nashville 1995
+ Bad Words
+ Le Weekend
+ The Raid 2
+ Nymphomaniac, Vol. I and II
7/15
* John Hiatt - Terms of Surrender
* Jason Mraz - Yes!
* Puss N Boots - No Fools, No Fun (Norah Jones side project.)
* 'Weird' Al Yankovic - Mandatory Fun
* Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business
* Luluc - Passerby
* Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
* Loverboy - Unfinished Business
* Anthrax - Spreading the Disease/Among the Living/State of Euphoria/Persistence of Time (all Deluxe.)
+ The Face of Love
+ Under the Skin
+ Rio 2
7/22
* Yes - Heaven & Earth (Jon Davison on vocals.)
* Richard Thompson - Acoustic Classics
* La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
* Drenge - S/T
* The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi
* Sugar & the Hi-Lows - Wild Desire EP
* Nightmare and the Cat - Simple
* Kix - Rock Your Face Off
* Overkill - White Devil Armory
* ZZ Top - The Very Baddest (2 CD's.)
+ Heaven is for Real
+ Cesar Chavez
+ Sabotage
+ Transcendence
7/29
* Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye
* Angus & Julia Stone - S/T
* Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
* Marc Broussard - A Life worth Living
* Hooray for Earth - Race
* Theory of a Deadman - Savages
* Adelitas Way - Stuck
* Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Center of the Earth (40th anniversary.)
* Beck Song Reader: a Tribute to Beck (2 CD's.)
* 'Get On Up' Soundtrack
+ Noah
+ The Other Woman
+ On My Way
8/5
* Big Country - The Seer/Peace in our Time/No Place like Home (imports; all Deluxe.)
* Spoon - They Want My Soul
* Tuatara - Underworld
* The Feed - Outsider
* The Wind and the Wave - From the Wreckage
* The Empty Hearts - S/T (Members of Blondie, The Cars, The Romantics.)
* Billy Joe Shaver - Long in the Tooth
* Owl John - S/T (Scott Hutchinson of Frightened Rabbit.)
* Genevieve Bellemare - Live and Die EP
* Train - Bulletproof Picasso
* Secret - The End of the Road
* Bear in Heaven - Time is Over One Day Old
* Paul Gilbert - Stone Pushing Uphill Man
* Eric Clapton - The Breeze: a Tribute to J.J. Cale
* Nils Lofgren - 'Face the Music' Box Set
* Skid Row - Rise of the Damnation Army, Chapter 2
* 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Soundtrack
+ God's Not Dead
+ Divergent
+ Need for Speed
+ Oculus
8/12
* The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
* Vintage Trouble - Swing House: Acoustic Sessions 2014 EP
* Brian Setzer - Rockabilly Riot: All Originals
* Neil Bryden - Wayfarer
* Porter Robinson - Worlds
* Lucero - Live from Atlanta (2 CD's.)
* Sinead O’Connor - I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss
* SOJA - Amid the Noise and Haste
* Suzanne Vega - 'Close Up' Series Box
* Unisonic - Light of Dawn
+ Muppets Most Wanted
+ Bears
+ The Railway Man
8/19
* Bill Mallonee - Winnowing
* Imogen Heap - Sparks (2 CD version available.)
* Ruthie Foster - Promise of a Brand New Day
* Benjamin Booker - S/T
* Caroline Rose - I Will Not Be Afraid
* Bahamas - Bahamas is Afie
* Roddy Frame - Seven Dials
* The Last Internationale - We Will Reign
* Neal Morse - Songs from November
* Jars of Clay - 20 (2CD's; Acoustic w/two new songs.)
* Better Than Ezra - Surprise ('Deluxe' era lost songs, I believe.)
* Twin Atlantic - Great Divide
* Mike Tramp - Museum
* Ace Frehley - Space Invader
* Accept - Blind Rage
* Dragonforce - Maximum Overload
* Roadkill Ghost Choir - In Tongues
* He is Legend - Heavy Fruit
* Brad Paisley - Moonshine in the Trunk
* Enuff Z Nuff - Covered in Gold
* Nashville Outlaws: a Country Tribute to Motley Crue
* Smokey Robinson - Smokey & Friends (duets.)
* Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited
+ The Amazing Spider-Man 2
+ Only Lovers Left Alive
+ Fading Gigolo
+ The Quiet Ones
8/26
* Robyn Hitchcock - Man Upstairs
* The Copyrights - Report
* The Rentals - Lost in Alphaville
* Letter to Memphis - Phases
* The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
* J. Mascis - Tied to a Star
* Laura Jean - S/T
* Shovels & Rope - Swimmin' Time
* Rubblebucket - Survival Sounds
* Thousand Foot Krutch - Oxygen: Inhale
* Adrenaline Rush - S/T
* Jeff LaBar - One for the Road
* Billy Talbot Band - On the Road to Spearfish
* Bruce Hornsby - Solo Concerts (2 CD's.)
* Asia - High Voltage Live in London 2010 (CD/DVD.)
+ Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
+ Belle
+ Blended
+ The Double
+ The Love Punch
9/2
* The Counting Crows - Somewhere Under Wonderland
* Justin Furstenfeld - Songs from an Open Book
* Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
* The Vines - Wicked Nature
* Dean Davidson - Different Roads
* Johnny Winter - Step Back (Many guests; R.I.P.)
* James Taylor – The Letter
* Maroon 5 - V
* The Kooks – Listen
* Code Orange Kids - I am King
* Zammuto - Archer
* The Call - Tribute to Michael Been (CD/DVD.)
* Richie Kotzen - Essential
* Big Star - Radio City/#1 Record (reissues.)
+ Draft Day
+ Mom's Night Out
+ Night Moves
+ They Came Together
+ Citizen Koch (documentary.)
9/9
* U2 - Songs of Innocence (FREE; iTunes.)
* The Beatles - In Mono (Box.)
* Robert Plant - Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar
* Ryan Adams - S/T
* Karen O - Crush Songs
* Better Than Ezra - All Together Now
* Delta Spirit - Into the Wide
* Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers
* Naomi Bedford - A History of Insolence
* Interpol - El Pinter
* Blonde Redhead - Barragan
* Vance Joy - Dream your Life Away
* Loudon Wainwright III – Haven’t got the Blues (Yet)
* Gemini Syndrome - Lux
* Mulholland - Stop and Start Again
* Sloan - Commonwealth
* Tennis - Ritual in Repeat
* Lee Brice – I Don’t Dance
* Queen - Live at the Rainbow 1974
+ Captain America: the Winter Soldier
+ Brick Mansions
+ God's Pocket
+ Ida
+ Palo Alto
+ A Long Way Down
+ Words and Pictures
+ The Hornet's Nest (documentary.)
+ Fed Up (documentary.)
+ The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (documentary.)
9/16
* James - Le Petit Mort (U.S. release.)
* Flyleaf - Between the Stars
* Blake Mills - Heigh Ho
* Earls of Leicester - S/T
* My Brightest Diamond - This is My Hand
* Mike Doughty - Stellar Motel
* Slash - World on Fire (w/Myles Kennedy.)
* Jimi Hendrix - ‘Rainbow Bridge’ and ‘The Cry of Love’
* Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to 'Born in the U.S.A.'
+ The Fault in Our Stars
+ Godzilla
+ Think Like a Man Too
9/23
* John Mellencamp - Plain Spoken
* Tweedy - Sukierae (Jeff Tweedy of Wilco w/son Spencer Tweedy.)
* Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
* Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes (Available on BitTorrent.)
* Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett - Cheek to Cheek (Your guess is as good as mine.)
* Marketa Irglova - Muna
* Chuck Prophet - Night Surfer
* Lenny Kravitz - Strut
* Julian Casablancas - Tyranny (Singer of The Strokes.)
* Mr. Big - The Stories We Could Tell
* Imelda May - Tribal
* Tin Spirits - Scorch
* Gary Clark, Jr. - Live
* Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien
* Alt-J – This is All Yours
* Aphex Twin - Syro
* Matty Mullins - S/T
* Jackie Evancho - Awakening
* The Drums - Encyclopedia
* Sondre Lerche - Please
* Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (Deluxe.)
* Paul McCartney - Venus and Mars (Deluxe.) and Wings at the Speed of Sound (Deluxe.)
+ Stryper - Live at the Whisky 2013
+ Yes - Songs from Tsongas
+ Neighbors
+ The Rover
+ The Signal
+ Very Good Girls
+ The Last of the Unjust (documentary.)
9/30
* Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (2 CD's.)
* Anais Mitchell - xoa
* Prince - 'Art Official Age' and 'Plectrumelectrum'
* Melissa Etheridge - This is Me
* Kat Edmonson - The Big Picture
* Pieta Brown - Paradise Outlaw
* Marianne Faithfull - Give My Love to London
* Bryan Adams - Tracks of My Years (Covers.)
* The Last Bison - VA
* The Vaselines - V is for Vaselines
* Nonpoint - The Return
* Flying Colors - Second Nature
* Dream Theater - Breaking the Fourth Wall: Live
* The Script - No Sound without Silence
* Trigger Happy - S/T
* Blake Shelton - Bringing Back the Sunshine
* Lady Antebellum - 747
* The Rural Alberta Advantage - Mended with Gold
+ Chef
+ Third Person
+ Cold in July
+ Are You Here
+ Decoding Annie Parker
+ Transformers: Age of Extinction
10/7
* Scars on 45 - Safety in Numbers
* Weezer - Everything will be Alright in the End
* Stevie Nicks - 24 Karat Gold
* Jackson Browne - Standing in the Breach
* Johnny Marr - Playland
* Yellowcard - Lift a Sail
* Caribou - Our Love
* Broods - Evergreen
* Shakey Graves - S/T
* Hozier - S/T
* Sixx A.M. - Modern Vintage
* The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When we're Gone?
* Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne (Deluxe CD/DVD.)
+ Ozzy Osbourne - Memoirs of a Madman (Documentary.)
+ Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
+ Obvious Child
+ Houdini
+ Million Dollar Arm
+ A Million Ways to Die in the West
+ Sharknado 2: the Second One
10/14
* U2 - Age of Innocence (Deluxe CD and Vinyl.)
* Bob Seger - Ride Out
* Sammy Hagar - Lite Roast (Acoustic.)
* Matthew Ryan - Boxers
* Grinder Blues - S/T (featuring Doug 'dUg' Pinnick.)
* Foxygen - And Star Power
* Stars - No One is Lost
* Meiko - Dear You
* Exodus - Blood in Blood out
* Sanctuary - Year the Sun Died
+ X Men: Days of Future Past
+ Bad Words
+ Mr. Peabody and Sherman
10/21
* Diana Krall - Wildflower
* Thurston Moore - The Best Day
* Bear's Den - Islands
* Jukebox the Ghost - S/T
* Ben Howard - I Forgot Where We Were
* Mark Lanegan - Phantom Radio
* Billy Idol - Kings and Queens of the Underground
* Little Big Town - Pain Killer
* Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth
* Primus - Primus and the Chocolate Factory w/the Fungi Ensemble (Concept album.)
* Dennis DeYoung - Live in Los Angeles (2CD's/DVD.)
+ Earth to Echo
+ Snowpiercer
+ Life after Beth
+ The Purge: Anarchy
10/28
* Lily & Madeleine - Fumes
* Taylor Swift - 1989
* LIVE - The Turn (w/new singer Chris Shinn.)
* Annie Lennox - Nostalgia (covers.)
* Led Zeppelin - IV/Houses of the Holy (Deluxe.)
* The Who - Hits 50 (2 CD's.)
+ Wish I was Here
+ Begin Again
+ The Prince
+ Good People
+ Child of God
+ America: Imagine the World without Her
11/4
+ Maleficent
+ The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug (Extended edition adds 25 minutes.)
+ A Most Wanted Man
+ The One I Love
+ Hercules
+ Planes: Fire and Rescue
+ Frontera
11/11
* Pink Floyd - The Endless River (2 CD's; mostly instrumental.)
* Lost on the River: New Basement Tapes (Lost Songs of Bob Dylan performed by Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, Jim James, etc; produced by T-Bone Burnett.)
* Damien Rice - My Favorite Faded Fantasy
* Foo Fighters - Sonic Highway
+ How to Train Your Dragon 2
+ Tammy
+ Let's Be Cops
+ Mood Indigo
+ Jersey Boys
11/18
* Sam Llanas - The Whole Night Thru
+ Frozen (Sing along version.)
+ If I Stay
+ And So It Goes
+ 22 Jump Street
+ The Wind Arises
+ Reclaim
LYRICS of the MONTH:
Captures our times pretty well...
"Shadow people, what's in their head?
In the car next to you, when the light turns red
Could be thinking of love, might be thinking of hate
I guess it pretty much could go either way
Shadow people, in shadow land
That one's thinking of great art
And eloquent words
That one's strapped on a gun
And joined up with the herd
That one's savin' up water
Got some food stored away
For the war that is coming on judgement day
Shadow people, in shadow land
And this one carries a gun for the USA
He's a 21st Century man
And he's scary as hell
'Cause when he's afraid
He'll destroy everything he don't understand
Well I ain't on the left
And I ain't on the right
I ain't even sure
I got a dog in this fight
In my time of need
In my time of grief
I feel like a shadow's falling over me
Like shadow people, in shadow land
Shadow people, in shadow land
Waiting for the sun to be straight overhead
'Til we ain't got no shadow at all."
Tom Petty, the song "Shadow People" from the album Hypnotic Eye.
With all the hurting going on in the world, I thought this next song could bear a repeat:
"And you asked me what I want this year
And I'll try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe
We'll find better days
'Cause I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
Designer love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe
We'll find better days
So take these words
And sing out loud
'Cause tonight's the night
The world begins again
I need someplace simple where we could live
And something only you could give
And that's Faith and Trust and Peace while we're Alive
And the one poor child who saved this world
There's 10 million more who probably could
If we all just stopped and said a prayer for them
I wish everyone was loved tonight
And somehow stop this endless fight
Just a chance that maybe
We'll find better days."
John Rzeznik of The Goo Goo Dolls, the song "Better Days" from the album Let Love In released in 2006.
Keep Rockin'!!
Peace!!
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