On the cover of the August issue, you’ll see Fabolous, a rap star who’s on his fifth album (but first for Def Jam), Loso’s Way. He was as cool on the phone as he looks in this picture. Here’s some of our INTERVIEW where he talks about doing the “label shuffle.”

YOU’LL NOT SEE NOTHING LIKE THE MIGHTY BOOSH

If you’ve turned on your television since the shocking death of Michael Jackson, you’ve no doubt seen the last rehearsal footage of the King of Pop and his band getting ready for his final tour, dubbed, This Is It. Up there sharing the stage with him is this striking blonde guitarist named Orianthi. The Australian [...]

Ok, ok, ok, laugh all you want, I know, I know, I know; instead of Jon Anderson YES has Benoit David (who,depending on when you were born may remind you of Peewit from the Smurfs, in his boyish, ren faire kind of way). But if you just look at the psychedelic images floating across the [...]

Exactly one year ago today, the Motor City Madman, Ted Nugent marked his 6,000th show by playing to over 20,000 shit-kickin fans at the DTE Energy Music Center in Detroit. Needless to say, the hometown crowd loves their hometown hero, the guy who will hunt and shoot almost anything for protein, the rocking gonzo who [...]

First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBBIE HARRY! I always loved Debbie and I always will. She’s an original. Madonna before Madonna, and Gwen Stefani before Gwen Stefani, and classic Blondie inspires new fans every day. I think it’s also safe to say that she was the most photogenic of all the punks/new wavers.
Do you [...]

…I mean that my interview with former J5/Ozomatli, baritone rapper, Chali 2na is in the can. I met him at some swanky office building off the Sunset Plaza section of the Sunset Strip. Chali’s got his first solo album coming out on Deacon Records sometime in July. I didn’t bring my camera down, but I [...]

As promised, you can read my interview with the Adicts’ Pete Dee in this month;s issue of Music Connection. I also gave you an audio taste of that interview a few blogs ago, so go back and check it out! 

When you think of the great rock photographers, Allan Tannenbaum’s name isn’t the first two or three that pop into your mind, I’m sure. People cite Jim Marshall, Mick Rock, Bob Gruen, Henry Diltz, or Gered Mankowitz much more often than Alan. And while those other photographers are great, they took some legendary live and [...]

I swear, since I took some of their classic albums with me on a camping trip last summer, I’ve been on such a Moody Blues kick. Well it’s almost summer again, and I’m still In Search of the Lost Chord. 
I mean, just look at that album cover!

(BTW, I don’t care how you listen to your [...]