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Beachwood Rock
Our monthly music archive.

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Our alt-country Internet radio guide.
RockNotes
Music news you can abuse.
Existential Rock
Asking life's biggest questions.
Trivial Pursuit
Getting rock's details right.
RockLinks
Richrath
Canada Rocks!
Tied and True
Genrepalooza
Rock & Roll High School
Songfacts
Measure for Measure
Today's Chicago Blues
Disco Demolition
A night of infamy.
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Save Internet Radio

By Don Jacobson
I suffered mightily in my younger days when the suits took over the airwaves and shrunk the playlists to the point where you could inscribe them on the head of a pin. Now they're going to do it me (and you) again.

Posted on June 27, 2007

Jimmy Swaggart: You Don't Need to Understand

By Don Jacobson
Jimmy Swaggart changed the face of gospel music - his honky-tonk style is eerily reminiscent of the seminal rock 'n' roll bashing of his cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis.

Posted on June 25, 2007

RockNotes: Your Lifestyle Rock Sucks!

By Don Jacobson
With ol' Dad hogging the garage to play Doobie Brothers covers with his accountant buddy on the drum kit, no self-respecting teenager would want to have anything to do with rock 'n' roll ever again. Plus, Aussie meltdowns and Sammy Hagar's lifestyle rock.

Posted on June 18, 2007

Reunion Blues

By Don Jacobson
A far better reunion tour than the Police makes a stop at Schuba's. What the Vee-Jay label means to you. And why Black Music Month is a disservice to black artists.

Posted on June 09, 2007

Prison Bars and Guitars

By Matt Cook and John Dorr
Songs about jails and crimes and lawmen and criminals, and the larceny inside a dark part of ourselves, many set in Lonesome Town involving a woman who done our hero wrong.

Posted on June 07, 2007

Chicago In Song: Cubs 'N Roses

By Don Jacobson
Funny. Izzy Stradlin says you need to pack a piece while hanging with GNR. But not in Chicago. Now that's a riot.

Posted on June 04, 2007

Coast to Coast

By Steve Rhodes
Her 920's gonna take her far today.

Posted on June 01, 2007

MUSIC - American flags.
TV - Crooked cops, rotary phones and bourbons on the rocks.
POLITICS - Roger Ebert jumps Palin's shark.
SPORTS - The Bears' bridge to nowhere.

BOOKS - Booze, baseball, JFK and the CTA. In Booklist.

PEOPLE PLACES & THINGS - The Five Dumbest Ideas of the Week.

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