Give me your music, your art, your huddled masses of words and rhythms yearning to breathe free.
Dana Spiardi 
All The King’s men. That’s a royal court that could include every seasoned rocker whose creative spark was first lit by the sight and sound of Elvis Presley. They started out wanting to be him, and spent their lives dying to meet him. Some were fortunate enough to encounter The King long before their moms … Read more
Geez, you write a song to honor The Lord, and you end up getting sued. That’s some crazy karma! In what is without doubt the most high-profile copyright infringement suit in music, a U.S. District Court once ordered George Harrison to pay $1.6 million to music publisher Bright Tunes for “subconsciously” plagiarizing The Chiffons’ “He’s … Read more
Snow came down like coarse sea salt on a big ugly Tupperware bowl of pale popcorn. It was January 1977, the coldest month in Pittsburgh history. I was a pint-size high school senior living in a small town 40 miles east of the Steel City, serving my time and awaiting the day in late May … Read more
When The Rolling Stones released the album “Their Satanic Majesties Request” in December 1967, they probably never imagined their oft-busted lead singer would one day hobnob with majesties of a very different sort. Ah, but rock-n-roll is an ever-evolving beast of beauty. And so it went that 35 years later – on December 12, 2003 … Read more
’Tis the season to see “Jews for Jesus” popping up around Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, the vibrant center of Jewish culture here in the city. Why, just the other day I was strolling to the iconic Little’s Shoe Store, my beloved Bethlehem of Boots, when I saw two spunky dudes dressed in blue “Jews for … Read more