B+ It’s no wonder why Harry Potter’s classmates hate him. He’s famous for an incident during which he never played an active role, is a teacher’s pet beyond any semblance of respectability, and at the end of the day, is a bit of a bumbling idiot who tends to stumble his way to greatness on…
Welcome to Burnes’ Turns, something that I began a few years ago when I was the Entertainment Editor of The East Texan. This was a weekly part of my Soundtrack column where I listed my favorite songs that I’d listened to that week, and was inspired by my favorite Rolling Stone writer David Fricke. I’m very…
**** If there’s one thing you can say about Chris Jericho, it’s that he is an entertainer. Wrestling fans are pretty easy to please when it comes to autobiographies. As long as you’re writing about the business, backstage politics, in-ring situations, etc. we’re usually happy. But we also typically want to read about things that…
B+ It’s been a lengthy road, but with three new tracks it seems like Seansational has finally arrived. Sean Bates, the 22-year-old behind Seansational, had been recording self-produced, self-performed music for years under the name In Orbit, but it was when he was drumming with his band Skies and Fire that he contracted an ailment that…
*** It’s interesting how we form our musical taste. I just completed a giant thesis on this topic, and take my word for it, it’s a very complicated process. But you don’t need a 50-page essay to recognize that the time in your life when you’re first exposed to an artist can have a major…
***** By the Spring of 1975, Boston Hard Rock Band Aerosmith had already released two fantastic LPs filled with lip-smacking sexual innuendos, fantastic stereo riffing from guitarists Brad Whitford and Joe Perry, and a caffeinated energy from frontman Steven Tyler. But nothing they had accomplished in their first few years as a commercially successful Rock…
*** There is no doubt that Ace Frehley is truly one of the most underrated lead guitarists of the ’70s. Penning some of the greatest Hard Rock riffs of all time (“Cold Gin,” “Shock Me,”), Ace’s work with KISS was fantastic, and no matter what Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons try to do to cover…
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