Posts tagged "Led Zeppelin"
Popblerd's 2014 Grammy Preview: Rock Field

Popblerd’s 2014 Grammy Preview: Rock Field

You read this correctly. These are the 2014 Grammy Award predictions.

Note for Note: A Complete Guide to the Discography of QUEEN

Note for Note: A Complete Guide to the Discography of QUEEN

In part 1 of an operatic look at the legendary career of ’70s rock band Queen, we cover everything from their early days in Smile and Larry Lurex to the pomp and circumstance of their Marx Bros. couplet. Come join us in the lap of the Gods!

Blerd Radio 2013 Episode 6: Blerd Radio Goes to the Seventies

Blerd Radio 2013 Episode 6: Blerd Radio Goes to the Seventies

The Popblerd crew travels back to the Seventies on their latest podcast.

bLISTerd: The 10 Best Albums of the '70s!

bLISTerd: The 10 Best Albums of the ’70s!

Michael, meet Stevie. Stevie, meet Michael. Stevie and Michael, meet our top ten.

bLISTerd: The 100 Best Albums of the ’70s: Part Nine

bLISTerd: The 100 Best Albums of the ’70s: Part Nine

We’re in crunchtime on our best of the ’70s list! Mick and Keef have a few things to say to you, though.

bLISTerd: The 100 Best Albums of the ’70s: Part Seven

bLISTerd: The 100 Best Albums of the ’70s: Part Seven

No list of the Seventies’ best albums is complete without Pink Floyd, right? Well, we got two of their albums here!

bLISTerd: The 100 Best Albums of the ’70s: Part Four

bLISTerd: The 100 Best Albums of the ’70s: Part Four

Who needs any stinkin’ Crosby, Stills or Nash??

Popblerd's Best Albums of 2012: Dave's List

Popblerd’s Best Albums of 2012: Dave’s List

Behold: our final individual best of 2012 list, courtesy of Aging Hipster turned God Searcher Dave Rullo!

Popblerd's New Release Report 11/19/12: Rihanna All Over Again

Popblerd’s New Release Report 11/19/12: Rihanna All Over Again

It’s November, that means there must be a new Rihanna album coming out! Check out the list of new albums coming on the last big release day of 2012!

Spin Cycle: Big Wreck "Albatross"

Spin Cycle: Big Wreck “Albatross”

For those of you who’ve never heard of Alexisonfire, Rush, Our Lady Peace or Big Wreck, I apologize now if your first exposure to Canadian rock bands was Nickelback.  Here’s the basic difference between Chad Kroeger and Ian Thornley — Ian is a musician with something to say and he’s surrounded himself with true musicians in the band Big Wreck.  Another trademark that is oft-compared is Thornley’s voice.  He will inevitably be compared to ‘that guy out of Seattle,’ who’s set […]

Spin Cycle: Puddle of Mudd’s “Re:(disc)overed” // Powerman 5000’s “Copies, Clones & Replicants”

Almost universally maligned as a once-relevant band’s career-twilight last-ditch stab at relevancy, the all-covers album more often than not allows a bereft-of-inspiration artist to court a last gasp of sweet, sweet mainstream success by promising songs the listener already knows and loves, and not those pesky tepid originals that said artist has been peddling for the past twenty years or so to increasingly-diminishing returns. And all under the guise of “paying tribute to our idols, man”. Seems like, to court […]

Award Show Sundays: Lenny Gets the Led Out

It’s amazing to think that the guy who started out being giggled at for being Denise Huxtable’s husband has gone on to have an enduring career that’s lasted for over two decades now. Lenny Kravitz went from laughingstock to near-legend by virtue of consistently solid albums and smoking live performances. He hasn’t done too much in terms of televised award show performances, but this run through “Are You Gonna Go My Way” from the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards is […]