By the logic of Machine Gun Kelly, this column will be a hit. Welcome to another installment of … what should we call this? Things I write about when my attention span equals a housefly on really good meth? Strike that. There’s no such thing as good meth, kids.…

For AC/DC to even put out a new record in 2020 is a serious accomplishment. Power Up AC/DC Columbia Records, Nov. 13 7/10 Just in the past few years, the band’s musical backbone, Malcom Young, died in 2017. Brian Johnson had hearing problems severe enough to send him to…

Insert Foot calling for healing after the presidential election. When I went from writing about news to music, I had no idea what I was about to experience. And that was strange. I understood how much music meant to me and my crowd. Almost every memory for us was…

Insert Foot ruminates on how Sean Connery’s James Bond would handle the 2020 election. You OK? I hope so. Halloween on a full moon was just the warm-up act, I’m afraid. That’s not just a cliché. I’m always afraid this time of year. But no one is saying I have…

Insert Foot vs. resisting the urge, Bayshore Drive-in. INA Photo Agency/Getty Images. Burlingame’s Bayshore Drive-in is hosting drive-in concerts during these days of whine and COVID. Which is nice … they just had Major Lazer play, and even have some comedy acts coming up. But … One of the editors…

Love is the King, the new record from Jeff Tweedy, is really lazy Saturday music, for when you have nowhere to be and the clocks might as well be busted. Love is the King Jeff Tweedy dBpm Records, Oct. 23 6/10 It’s not even lazy Sunday music, the sounds…

There’s typically an inner dialogue happening when serious Bruce Springsteen fans hear a new record the first time, especially one on which he unleashes the power of the E Street Band and its version of the wall of sound. Letter To You Bruce Springsteen Columbia, Oct. 23 8/10 It…

Left: Tony Hicks in the ’80s. Right: Tony Hicks in “Halloween 2018.” I went to a movie for the first time in eight months on Friday night. It felt … weird. I think paying for a film with Michael Myers as the protagonist, when I had once been paid…

The Struts have finished their third LP, Strange Days. They’re established and not going away. So, the way I see it, rock fans have a decision to make. Strange Days The Struts Interscope, Oct. 16 6/10 The choices seem to be: 1) Embrace them. Freddie Mercury died nearly 30…

Insert Foot longing for childhood. I just had an emotional Feel Like a Kid Again Week. Never heard of it? Me neither. I just made it up. I figure someone else is out there making up fake holidays (Daughter’s Day, Son’s Day … Hamster Month), so why shouldn’t I?…