It’s time again for Friday on My Mind , our weekly blog post where we look at videos centered around a common theme. This is a collaborative effort between KEXP and King 5 News. It’s St. Patrick’s Day this upcoming Sunday so we’re looking at songs about luck. Ireland has observed the religious holiday of St. Patrick’s Day for the last 1,000 years every March 17th, which is said to be the day that Ireland’s patron saint, St. Patrick passed away back on 461 AD which was unlucky. Oddly enough, it turns out that St. Patrick wasn't [...]

In no particular order other than the order in which they popped into my head... "Double Vision" Foreigner (No. 2, 1978, from Double Vision ) The problem with being a rock & roll band that had its biggest hits with power ballads ("Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is," Foreigners only No. 1 U.S. single) is that it makes it easy for people to forget how great you sounded in the vicinity of crashing guitars. If I'd forgotten about Foreigner's considerable rock might, I received a bracing [...]
Throat problems for singer Arnel Pineda have forced the postponement of five Journey shows across the American Midwest, beginning with tonight's stop in Evansville, Indiana. Pineda, who joined Journey in 2008, is suffering from a severe case of throat inflammation - both laryngeal and esophageal. Doctors have ordered him off the road for a week. Other dates impacted: Journey's November [...]
Inmiddels heeft de term loverboy in Nederland nogal vervelende connotaties gekregen, maar in Canada is die betekenis onbekend, laatst staan toen deze heren in 1980 hun bandje startten. Behalve bassist Scott Smith - in zijn plaats bast Ken Sinnaeve -...
Photo by Tony NelsonJourney, Pat Benatar featuring Neil Giraldo, Loverboy September 2, 2012 Minnesota State Fair Grandstand Looking kind of like what a band of dudes who jam out in a suburban basemen

Photos - Loverboy @ The Iowa State Fair - Des Moines, IA 8-18-12 [View with PicLens]

Review - Journey w/ Pat Benatar and Loverboy @ Iowa State Fair - Des Moines, IA 8-18-12 Review - Journey with Pat Benatar and Loverboy @ Iowa State Fair Saturday night at the Iowa State Fair was a night I'd been waiting along time for. It was my chance to slip back into the 80s and dance and sing to the live music of my favorite bands from my teenage years: Loverboy, Pat Benatar, and Journey , one stage...one night. It was spectacular!! [...]
Smashing Pumpkins: “Oceana” From the very first notes of “Oceana” there is no denying that this is a Smashing Pumpkins record. The military drums, the low rumbling bass, the screaming vocals wrapped in the quiet-to-loud wall of sound is everything you've come to expect from Billy Corgan's one man band. That said, there is something missing in these 13 new tracks, the hooks that got songs like “1979,” “Tonight Tonight” and “Cherub Rock” stuck in your head, and made them the soundtrack of the 1990s. [...]

Barclays Center (06/22/12) Photo : D. Caplan The first new indoor arena to open in New York City since 1968, Barclays Center is a state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venue that can host 19,000 concertgoers and up to 18,200 basketball fans. In addition to JAY Z and Streisand, Barclays Center has booked a variety of programming including heartthrob Justin Bieber (Nov. 12), gospel great Hezekiah Walker (Dec. 10), The King's Men (Oct. 14), innovative rockers Rush (Oct. 22) and Journey (Oct. 30), singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen (Dec. 20) and [...]

Italian Loverboy has done this awesome unofficial remix for The Rapture's " How Deep Is Your Love? " last month. He's back with an original track, the summer vibed jam "I Feel It". Download here . We're definitely keeping an eye on this boy!

Has it been 10 years already? It seems like only yesterday the world was celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's 50 years on the throne with the Golden Jubilee. But that was a decade ago, and this weekend brings the UK's official holiday commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee marking the 60th anniversary of Her Royal Majesty's reign, which was technically in February, and which the Sony Channel in Bangkok inexplicably has been plugging all week. This time I'll celebrate the way I did last time, without fanfare. As a U.S. Virgin Islands-born American citizen, I'm not [...]
Here's another golden track from our Loverboy! Once again this is not knew, but it's definitely one of the best tracks I'm blogging in 2012 (personal opinion). In case you've never heard about Loverboy. Ok. He's a Portuguese dude called Mario Vinagre and at the moment he lives in Italy. He's one of my personal [...]
If you're following us since the beginning, I'm pretty sure Loverboy is not a new name for you. If it's the first time. Ok. Mário Vinagre is a good friend for a couple of years now. He has been producing music for ages and we're fans of his music since the beginning. "Dreamworks" was produced [...]

Back in 2009, the Dirty Projectors made scores of Best Of lists, including our own , with the quirky experimental art rock sounds of Bitte Orca , which we'd recommend if you're a fan of the Talking Heads. On July 10, the Brooklyn-based band will release their long awaited follow up with Swing Lo Magellan, via the venerable indie label Domino Records. The 12-track affair, which was recorded at an old house in Delaware County, New York, and is being described as having a bit of a "stripped down" sound that you can hear [...]
Neal Schon will be busy this summer, putting the finishing touches on a new solo release, even as Journey hits the road again for a series of summer concert dates. They're continuing to tour behind the well-received 2011 release Eclipse, which debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard 200 chart. It was the group's second collaboration with Filipino lead singer [...]

OH MY, OH MY, OH MY! This one’s a Keeper ... Like with every other track featured on Aerialnoise being that glorious bite in any Saturday Night Delight.. Rio de Janeiro’s Collins allows free rein of this exquisite Boombar electro-Rolex. A track; marred with more excitement than a bank balance funded with $1,000,000. And the gold medal goes to ...

OH MY, OH MY, OH MY! This one’s a Keeper ... Like with every other track featured on Aerialnoise being that glorious bite in any Saturday Night Delight.. Rio de Janeiro’s Collins allows free rein of this exquisite Boombar electro-Rolex. A track; marred ... Continue reading
These guys are soo bad ass. I mean, sooo bad ass.

Car Wash Love Car Wash Love - Loverboy ( mp3 )

Well boys and girls I have to say, January has been good to us. There's been a great amount of fantastic new music lately, and you might have noticed that we've been doing a few bulk posts to stay on top of it. And that's only in our specific field of genres, which prompts me to ask, has it been the same way with other genres that we don't cover? I ask this seriously because many blogs, us included , consider 2012 to be the year for a surge in indie, disco, french, funk and soul-based electronic music. If [...]