By TYLER KULA The Observer A local musician who skirted with a commercial breakthrough is hoping a well-known producer will help put him over the [...]

An 82-year-old heavy metal fan has been inundated with gifts from bands after hearing about his love for rock

Via Waxy Links is a meme called Wikipedia Names Your Band. Here's how you do it: Go to a random Wikipedia article - the name of the article becomes your band's name. Go to Random Quotations - the last 4-5 words of the last quotation on the page are your the title of your first album. Go to Flickr's Explore the last 7 days and choose the third picture - this will be your album cover. Put them all together, and you get something like this: The components for mine were: Artist: Vong Savan

nathan morseThe Phantom Surfers claim to be the worst band of the ‘90s surf revival. They are also the longest-lived and released possibly the most records, too. They speak now before noon on a Saturday about Dick Dale’s lawyer, Rudy Ray Moore’s wheelchair and Russell Quan’s groupies. This interview by Dan Collins.How many band members have you had in the band, and how did you get Russell to join the band, seeing as how he was already in eight bands?Maz Kattuah (guitar): We bribed him. We gave h

“We All Love Our School”, written by written by 4th grade Salem students in 2007, performed by 2nd and 3d grade students in 2008-9. Click to listen or download. We All Love Our School White and blue our colors true. We all love our school! At Salem we’re having fun. Salem we’ve just begun Salem students are the best. We’re a cut above the rest. A-round every turn, there is some-thing to learn. We all love our school! A peaceful place puts a smile on your face. We all love our school