No way around it. This is gonna' be a short column.

For a brief time, Cheap Trick were not only one of the biggest bands in the world, they were also arguably the best.

As the box proudly says, "there are no sanctions, no rules, and insanity reigns supreme" on Wrestling Underground.

The floodgates have opened.

AC/DC. It's whats for dinner.

Close your eyes for a minute and you could almost imagine it was the late seventies.

In a few short weeks America is going to elect a brand new president who is named Barack Hussein Obama. Get used to it.

This love letter to Neil Diamond is also in many ways a book about music criticism itself. Damn you, David Wild!

Two notable collections of previously released music really stand out from the pack this week.

Bruce Springsteen is an American rock star whose body of work dating from the early seventies to the present places him in the rare company of such artists as Bob Dylan as a living legend. Equally at home performing folk based music on such solo acoustic albums as Nebraska and …