Artist: foghat

It saddens us to report that as of this post we are abandoning our indie music format for a more commercially viable Top 40 radio format. Just kidding! Happy April Fool's Day, everybody. John Richards just shared a few of his favorite Fool's Day songs in Friday on My Mind , but seeing as how today is April Fool's Day, we thought we'd share some more songs with you: Def Leppard - Foolin' Led Zeppelin - Fool in the Rain [...]

Brilliant blue-vinyl special edition of Foghat's blues tribute album.

I am jumping on this train as it hits top speed. Forget all the comparisons to The White Stripes, and forget all the critical hosannas and flowery expositions of The Black Keys as rock and roll saviors, even though they might be. Let's celebrate the big fat choruses, the head-bobbing, hair-flyin' groove, the underpinning of greasy soul that lifts them above the fray. This is big, dumb rock in all it's bare chested glory. The Black Keys are 2012's Foghat and "Lonely Boy" is their "Slow Ride", as camaro rock as it gets. [...]

• Foghat - Slow Ride
• The Black Keys - Lonely Boy

If Grifter didn't exist I would have had to make them up. Three hairy, over the hill guys from Plymouth, England playing no frills heavy rock and living in a 1974 time warp will always be something I will encourage. Since 2003, Grifter has been kicking ass and putting out EP's but now it's full length album time and it's on Ripple's home grown label. How cool is that? Pretty fuckin cool if you ask me since Grifter rock hard and the Ripple guys are experts at recognizing the real deal. A match made [...]

- Remember when I blogged over the summer about the behind-the-scenes bickering in New Order ? Well, looks like they've stayed true to it. The band is reforming to play a few charity gigs next month in Paris and Brussels. Synth player Gillian Gilbert will play, but founding member/bassist Peter Hook will not. - Power trios rock! Paste Mag lists 14 awesome modern-day power trios , including the likes of The Thermals, The Joy Formidable and Nada Surf (though Nada has employed the swell guitar playing talents of rock guitar vet Doug [...]

Today you can slap on a CD by the likes of Humble Pie, Canned Heat or Savoy Brown and it sounds pretty good. What you're hearing is what was called "boogie rock" back in the day - basically blues flavored rock done up with a driving backbeat. Here in the States, boogie rock's best practitioners came from the South: the Allman Brothers, Skynyrd and ZZ Top. And the Brits were no slouches when it came to boogie. Humble Pie, Savoy Brown and Status Quo top the list here, but today let's spin Fool For The City , [...]

New indie rock from the New Jersey shore.

Well, what I really should say is that we are running out of things to say about Christmas. We already took our potshot at the right-wing TV pundits, and we already did our "tired of Christmas" thing and of course the good ol' commercialization of Christmas thing. We can still do the ol' Peace on Earth thing ... But we're not running out of Christmas tunes! MP3: "A Jordan Xmas" by Tracy Morgan MP3: "Christmas Time Is Here Again" by My Morning [...]

Links for goodnesss, Links for gold....soundz. - Pavement plays Colbert ! Malkmus acts as foil to Colbert! More on Pavement at NY Times Arts Blog . - Do musicians really not make much money at all? - Holy Blowfish! The Guided by Voices Reunion tour starts in Dallas next week! See rehearsal video below! - Ten Bands Whose Names Could Double as Motorcyle Gangs (via Paste Magazine) - Why NOT like the Foghat Facebook page : what, are you un-Birmingham? [...]

There's a load of good shows this weekend in the Phoenix area. Not only do alt-rockers have the three-day AZ Fall Frenzy featuring 90s warhorses like Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime, Weezer and others, but classic rockers get their share with the Red and the Black classic rock doublebill of Blue Oyster Cult and Foghat . But the show nearest to my current soul is Saturday night's show with The Soft Pack (and Memomena )at the Clubhouse in Tempe . Here's The Soft Pack doing their song "Answer [...]

Its nice to see these largely forgotten guys from bands like Humble Pie and Uriah Heep have still got it after all these years. Music - Arts - Uriah Heep - Compilation album - Bands and Artists

Foghat returns to its blues roots. Blues - Music - Arts - Arts and Entertainment - United States

Need a good mix tape for your next blues-themed cocktail party? Look no further. Blues - Music - Arts and Entertainment - United States - Shopping

The legendary Foghat. Enough energy to light a stadium. Education - Reviews - Beach Boys - Rolling Stones - Rock music

Essential collection of flyers (Keelhaul, Vanilla Fudge, Eyehategod, etc.) Refused's "New Noise" remixed by Bloody Beetroots Where to start? I'm feeling pretty scattered right now. My old lady's bugging me about goin' to the gym (you know, that old chestnut) so I have to do this up quick, no foolin'! To begin, play the [...]

• The Bloody Beetroots feat. Refused - New Noise

What can you say about Foghat Live except that it ROCKS! And that means everything about it ROCKS – the music, the awesome LP packaging, the band's giant droopy mustaches, you name it. The only thing disappointing about this album is that it's only a single and not a double. This is one you need to have on all formats – LP for the killer die cut sleeve, CD for the car and mp3 for your ipod. Captured in concert on their never ending 1977 tour, Foghat Live kicks ass from start to finish. It's impossible [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News After strutting through his fourth song Friday night at Brooklyn Bowl, Free Energy lead singer Paul Sprangers looked around and told a roomful of New York City fans, "First time in a bowling alley." While there was no reason to question this statement -- Free Energy is nothing if not sincere -- it was hard to believe the Philadelphia quintet had never before played such a venue. After all, the band's poppy, populist brand of '70s arena rock is perfectly suited [...]

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If you've been with us this long, you already know the Warner Bros./Reprise Loss Leaders series wasn't about hit records - although the 1970s entries managed to have one or two hit singles on each sampler. But with the coming of 1975's I Didn't Know They Still Made Records Like This , the label rolled out its big guns. Of the 26 songs included on this two-LP set, six were bonafide Top 20 hits and a few others were FM radio staples. And another thing about this one - it was aimed squarely at MOR audiences. Singer/songwriters [...]

By 1974, radio's hard rock trend was going strong – Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Humble Pie dominated the FM rock airwaves. Appropriately titled for the time, Hard Goods arrived in mailboxes with freshly minted rockers like Montrose, covering Roy Brown's "Good Rocking Tonight" and Foghat, offering its cover of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be The Day." Ted Nugent and his Amboy Dukes show up, and the perfect marriage between glam and hard rock emerges in the then-new KISS (Casablanca Records were distributed by Warner Bros. until about 1976). The Doobie Brothers were still rockin' behind guitarist/vocalist [...]