Denim & Distortion: How Heavy Metal Accidentally Invented Punk, Part 8
Five months after the last installment, we tell the tale of how grunge killed the Sunset Strip.
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In Memoriam: Frank Beard (1949 – 2026)
The ZZ Top drummer was mostly The Quiet One, his drumming aside. I got 20 minutes with him in 2013.
Standing Over By The Record Machine: The Cramps’ *Gravest Gravy*
Restacked from the new *Ugly Things*: How the newly reactivated Vengeance Records re-opened Ivy & Lux’s archives, with a little help from In The Red, Henry Rollins, and Ian MacKaye.
Elvis Has NOT Left The Building: A Novelette [Chapter 5]
The conclusion of our personal, fictional Elvis Week. Today: I say my goodbye, after playing him some more records.
Elvis Has NOT Left The Building: A Novelette [Chapter 4]
Fresh fiction in five parts. Today: Elvis and I walk down Beale Street, contemplating the sources of his sound and who deserves a crown.
Elvis Has NOT Left The Building: A Novelette [Chapter 3]
Fresh fiction in five parts. Today: I play Presley the Robert Gordon track Springsteen wrote for him, then we go clothes shopping.
Elvis Has NOT Left The Building: A Novelette [Chapter 2]
Fresh fiction in five parts. Today: I play a few records for rock ‘n’ roll’s somehow-still-living biggest icon.
Elvis Has NOT Left The Building: A Novelette [Chapter 1]
Fresh fiction in five parts, about an average day spinning records and frying peanut butter and banana sandwiches…with HIM!
The Tim “Napalm” Stegall Interview: Keith Richards
ANOTHER WORK OF FICTION. But hey, he was in town and happened to have an album to promote….
In Memoriam: Jeff “Monoman” Conolly (1956-2026)
The fallen DMZ/Lyres mainman built a garage, then set it on fire from the inside.
Classics, Revisited: Tim’s unpublished CREEM review of the first New York Dolls album!
ANOTHER WORK OF FICTION! God, I was a precocious tot….
Happy 4th Birthday To The Tim “Napalm” Stegall Substack!
In observance, a re-run of our opening shot, *The Manifesto: I’m A Contaminant In The Program.