Tag: David Bowie

Cover Story: Love and Rockets • Reissues & Reunion

Brassneck | April 30, 2023 | 0 Comments

Not that a random Google quest can sum up the alpha/omega significance of any particular subject. But when you punch in ‘Love and Rockets, band’ on the search engine, one of the Frequently Asked Questions it churns up is a deceptively simple “Is Love and Rockets Goth?” It’s a conundrum that still confounds bandleader […]

Cover Story: Smashing Pumpkins: Never Mind the Gatekeepers

Brassneck | October 31, 2022

It’s not often that an artist is afforded the privilege of seeing the importance of their career painstakingly delineated in its relative historical importance. You usually have to wait until your screen has faded to afterworld black for that kind of cumulative honor. But at 55, after nearly four decades spent helming Smashing […]

Live Review and Photo Gallery: Celebrating David Bowie at Copernicus Center • Chicago

Brassneck | October 15, 2022

Celebrating David Bowie Copernicus Center Chicago, IL October 14, 2022 Review and photos by Jeff Elbel The Celebrating David Bowie tour brought its star-powered musicians and the late Bowie’s star-powered songs to Copernicus Center on Friday. The show delivered on its namesake promise with a generous 30-song set of adventurous selections for diehard Bowie fans […]

Cover Story: Dave Gahan & Soulsavers • “Depeche Mode’s vocalist under the covers”

Brassneck | October 31, 2021 | 0 Comments

After over 40 years together, British synth-rock trailblazer Depeche Mode has become such a huge, propulsive force that its three core members — vocalist Dave Gahan, multi-instrumentalists Martin Gore, and keyboardist Andy Fletcher — don’t even have to be officially working on any new music to remain in the news. Their name alone seems […]

Cover Story: Ministry • “My House is My Art”

Brassneck | August 31, 2021 | 0 Comments

Any other modern bandleader would be a tad nervous, if not downright filled with floor pacing anxiety. But not calm, cool, and collected Svengali Al Jourgensen. Sure, his notorious, pioneering industrial outfit Ministry is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year by — gulp! — heading out on post-lockdown, but mid-Delta-variant tour, which hits Chicago […]

Featured: My Back Pages

Brassneck | May 13, 2020 | 0 Comments

First, let me preface this with a little disclaimer. Call me a misanthrope, but — in all my 40-plus years of rock journalism — I have never really been a sharer, outside of my stories. I see no use for social media; I don’t care what your opinion of my work happens to be; this […]

File: Hello My Name Is… Cherie Currie

Brassneck | May 1, 2020 | 0 Comments

A full decade ago, ex-Runaways “front fox” Cherie Currie began work on Blvds of Splendor with former Guns N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum producing. But a funny thing happened on the way to the glam-rock forum. “The plan was to get it done and get it out there,” she says of the set, which […]