Author Archives: Scott James

Image: Mercury Records Your Q Classic Album Extra Helping this week is Bon Jovi's monster album Slippery When Wet, which dropped in August of 1986, spent eight weeks at number one on the Billboard 200...

Image: Def American Records The Black Crowes' Shake Your Money Maker, which dropped February 13 1990, is this week's Classic Album selection. Marlon Martens will play all eleven tracks on Shake Your M...

Image: Easy Eye/Warner Records Following an emotional dustup with their management and a subsequently cancelled tour, Grammy winning cats The Black Keys are back on the horse: they'll launch the first...

Image: YouTube Def Leppard have dropped a cover of Stand By Me, which was originally a hit for Ben E. King in 1961. Proceeds from the track will be donated to FireAid, the charity which is is helping ...

Image:A&M Records Supertramp's sixth studio album Breakfast In America, which dropped in March of 1979, is this week's Classic Album selection and the latest to get the full play treatment. I'll p...

Image: Columbia Records Bruce Springsteen's 1975 breakthrough album Born To Run - an exercise in perfectionism, with six months spent producing the title track alone - is another one of this week's Q ...

Image: YouTube Ringo Starr, who looks more like 48 than 84, chatted with Jimmy Kimmel the other night. Topics included his new number one country album, the Beatles being nominated for two Grammy awar...

Image: FireAid The massive FireAid concerts benefiting Los Angeles fire recovery efforts kick off tonight in two Inglewood California venues, with the money raised from ticket sales going to the Annen...

Image: Apple Records May 08 1970, Let It Be - the twelfth and last studio album from The Beatles - dropped, about a month after the band revealed that they'd hung up their instruments. Let It Be is on...

Image: Billyidol.net Billy Idol will be hitting the road again this year, with Joan Jett and The Blackhearts on board. The It's A Nice Day To ... Tour Again tour will kick off in Phoenix at the end of...