• Rock

    Songs To Wrestle To – WWE, The Music

    I can’t call myself a fan of the rasslin’, but my buddy Charlie sure is. It’s time for Charlie to spread the good word of the WWE… – Pete Professional wrestling is a lot more than big, sweaty men throwing…

  • Indie,  Video

    Music and Ads: Let Me Sleep On It

    By no means do I think it’s a great idea for respected musicians to shill products on TV. But once in a while, as hard as it may be to stomach, I can’t help but be entertained. Case in point,…

  • Friday Five

    Ickmusic’s Friday Five: April 11, 2008

    “I spend too much time raiding windmills… “- Toad the Wet Sprocket Today is a vacation day for me and in lieu of leaving the faithful fivers without an outlet to share what’s getting them through the day (or night…

  • Miscellaneous

    Ickmusic.com: The Unavailable Weeks

    Question for the regulars. Have you had problems over the last few weeks with my web site timing out, or being unavailable? Has it happened more than once for you? And most importantly, is it getting to the point where…

  • Heartworn Highways movie poster
    Country,  Folk,  Video

    Townes Van Zandt in Heartworn Highways

    I just watched Heartworn Highways last night. It’s a great music film, a snapshot of the mid-70’s Nashville and Austin outlaw music scene. It features Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, David Allan Coe, Steve Young, a very young Steve Earle, and…

  • Rock

    Drive By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark

    Guest post from friend of Ickmusic Cam in Toronto. Drive-by Truckers (DBT) are mostly known for their great live shows and categorized in the ‘southern rock’ genre. Over the past few years, though, they haven’t exactly acted like your standard…

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Top Ten Moments: The Boss in Anaheim

    A couple of quality show reviews have already been posted on Backstreets and by Mr. Malchus at Popdose, so let me convey my Monday night Boss experience the following way…. picture courtesy of Backstreets.com Top Ten Moments from Monday, April…

  • Prince

    Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day!

    Is it merely coincidence that today is also the day that was selected to announce that His Royal Badness will be joining the (frankly) lackluster line up of this year’s Coachella Festival? Don’t get me wrong, I’d be stoked to…

  • Bruce Springsteen

    In Anaheim with the Ghost of Tom Joad

    Before I jump on a plane and head back to Arizona, let me share the highlight of last night’s Boss show at the Honda Center in Anaheim. Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) joined Bruce and the band for “The…

  • Friday Five

    Ickmusic’s Friday Five: April 4, 2008

    Face down in the gutter won’t admit defeat though his clothes are soiled and black, he’s a big, strong man with a child’s mind, don’t you take his booze away! Is it April already? The first quarter of the year…