Oct 232025
 
Rancid

There’s a new tribute record coming out at the end of the month, paying tribute to the great Motörhead. One of the tracks has been released, from Rancid.

They are offering up their cover of the 1995 song “Sex & Death” from Motörhead’s Sacrifice album. In a press release for the album, Rancid guitarist/singer Lars Frederiksen said, “It’s like it’s the perfect Motörhead song for me. You know as well as I do how much of a big Ramones fan Lem was. And it sounds to me like his take, Motörhead doing The Ramones. But there’s that little itty bitty guitar solo there. And it was the most Rancid-style song that Motörhead did that I thought it’s close enough to like a song we would write.” Continue reading »

Apr 112016
 

In Memoriam pays tribute to those who have left this world, and the songs they left us to remember them by.

MerleHaggard

Merle Haggard died on April 6th, his 79th birthday. On another April 6th, eleven years earlier, he celebrated his birthday in Chicago, opening the spring run of Bob Dylan’s “Never Ending Tour.”

I don’t know what he did for most of that 66th birthday, but I do know how five minutes or so was spent. He was standing outside his tour bus, listening to a handful of Dylan obsessives sing “Happy Birthday” to him. I was one of them. Continue reading »