Bob Ezrin

Year-end roundups tend to look backward, but if there's one thing recent music history has taught us it's that there's not much recent music history. Read More

THIS is going to be a bumper year for music fans as a number of the industry's heavyweights have albums in the pipeline - and there's also a healthy scattering of debut releases to look forward to. Read More

As Alice Cooper entered the 1980s, the emergence of punk (which in turn owned a debt to him) revitalized his sound and material, steering him away from the overblown albums of the late '70s and back into the raw, nasty rock 'n' roll which, along with his gothic-horror stage show, brought him his initial fame and fortune. Read More

Kaela Carlin's band, Yellowcake, was a pretty typical high school band, for the most part. Read More