The Chronicles of Michael Christopher
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Just like you and I, there are rockers, rollers and other assorted musical miscreants out there who need help keeping their declared promises to make the next 12 months better than the dozen prior. It shouldn’t be that hard to improve upon the raging dumpster fire of 2020, but – hey – people thought the... Continue Reading →
The fine folks over at Ultimate Classic Rock have run an exclusive excerpt from my book Depeche Mode: All That's Left to Know About the World's Finest Synth-Pop Band, which lands on shelves December 28 and is available for pre-order here. The passage details the time around the release of the group's 1990 mainstream breakthrough... Continue Reading →
I'm incredibly excited to announce my second book is slated for release in fall 2021! Titled, Van Halen: The Eruption and the Aftershock, it's something I've been working on for some time and have wanted to do forever. It will be published via Backbeat Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, the same publishers who... Continue Reading →
Forty years ago today, the surviving members of Led Zeppelin declared they would officially be breaking up, a little over two months removed from the untimely passing of drummer John Bonham on September 25, 1980 at the age of 32. Each of the surviving members - singer Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones and guitarist... Continue Reading →
The organizers behind Record Store Day have struggled this year, first needing to push their namesake holiday back and then into three separate “RSD Drops” days this fall across a series of months. It’s all worked out pretty well thus far, but now comes what used to be known as “Back to Black Friday,” heretofore... Continue Reading →
The long-awaited first taste of solo music from Wolfgang Van Halen was released this week, and it was a heartbreaker. Dedicated to his late father Eddie Van Halen, the song “Distance,” best described as pop rock with an edge that sees the 29-year-old singing and playing every instrument, is an emotional whirlwind reflective of the... Continue Reading →
Right about now, I should be chilling in a hot pot in the land of ice and snow for the annual Iceland Airwaves music festival, which I’ve been covering for nearly a decade. The coronavirus pandemic has put a hold on pretty much everything entertainment-wise though, and it’s become impossible to draw large groups of... Continue Reading →
There sure has been a lot of horror film talk around these parts lately. "'Tis the season" goes the saying, but this is (maybe) the final entry on the topic for the year, one where I've focused on the second entry in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, Freddy's Revenge. The movie was renowned... Continue Reading →
The last time Freddy Krueger was on the the big screen was 2010 when the reboot of A Nightmare of Elm Street came out. A year before that was the Friday the 13th reboot, the last time Jason Voorhees was in theaters carving it up. At a time when horror films are at an arguable... Continue Reading →
It's the age old question. Who would win in a fight: Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger or Michael Myers? And while we didn't get to answer that specifically, over at Ultimate Classic Rock this week, a group of us had a little roundtable to discuss the trifecta of horror. Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm... Continue Reading →
The Chronicles of Michael Christopher 