October's become something of a rock/new wave dub-disco month, what with last year's Japan/Ian Dury & The Blockheads entries and the recent discussion of Roxy Music’s Love Is The Drug, which is no bad thing as far as I'm concerned. After all, the rolling dancefloor grooves of Suburban Love and Hit Me With Your Rhythm … Continue reading Loa Funk Logic

Roxy Music Love Is The Drug (7" Single) (Island: 1975) Hovering right in there at the midpoint of the 1970s, Love Is The Drug is axis on which the decade hinges. Take it one step backward and you're knee deep in T. Rex, The Chi-Lites and King Crimson — the realm of prog, glam rock, Philly soul, … Continue reading Roxy Music – Love Is The Drug

If there was one band that served as the axis on which seventies hard rock gave way to eighties heavy metal, it was Van Halen. Arriving on the scene just as many of metal's first wave giants were running out of steam, their flashy, glamorous sound set the stage for the next decade of rock … Continue reading Van Halen