Tag Archives: Whitesnake
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REWIND: Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Whitesnake and Hanoi Rocks
Whitesnake performs at Reading Rock Festival in England in 1980. Photo: Andrew King/Wikicommons. Valentine’s Day is on Tuesday so it’s that time again. Time and time and time again I’ve written cynical, bitter columns about how stupid Valentine’s Day is and how much I hate it. I write an…
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REWIND: Five love songs (of sorts) that aren’t complete garbage
“Round and Round” by RATT; need we say anything more? As our illustrious editor Roman Gokhman alluded to in last week’s column, I’ve got a girlfriend. Sorry ladies, but I’m off the market. It’s become somewhat of a Valentine’s Day tradition for me to openly loathe romance and love…
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REWIND: Recap the decade with our editor’s top Spotify song of each year
Andrew WK gave everyone the permission to party hard. Yes, even to Cat Stevens. This week Spotify rolled out its annual Year in Review app, for subscribers to see what their top songs and artists of 2019 were. This year, since 2020 is right around the corner, they stretched…
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RIFF REWIND: Drive your Camaro to Whitesnake, Bon Jovi and Nazareth
Courtesy: ’70s Chevrolet advertisement. Not pictured: Whitesnake, Daniel J. Willis. I drive a Camaro. Some cars, like your Priuses and your Camrys, are made to get you where you need to go as efficiently and safely as possible. I don’t begrudge people for owning those. Some cars, like Lexuses…
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Avoid the week of love with our jilted editor and these songs
If you’re like me—and odds are either you are or you aspire to be—you don’t really want to be associated with Valentine’s Day. Some people spend weeks festooning everything in cutesy red hearts and some spend those weeks raging against the mere concept with songs about getting dumped. But not people…