Sweet had a long road to respectability as rockers. Like a lot of young acts in the U.K. during the late '60s and early '70s, they made a bid for music busines...
It is one of several bitter ironies in the Mott The Hoople story that they delivered the finest album of their Island Records era at a time when they felt forgo...
All of the Mott The Hoople albums from their Island Records era have their partisans but if one had to be singled out as the least popular of the group, it woul...
Like many a horror fan raised in the VHS age, Schlockmania obtained an education in Italian horror and cult fare at the local video store. The boxes and ad copy...
If the first Mott The Hoople album was a magical bit of alchemy that was quickly willed into existence then their second album, Mad Shadows, was the hard-won re...
Michael Winner was on a hot streak in the first half of the '70s, cranking out one crackerjack "guy's movie" after another. Several of these films were done wi...
John Luongo's name isn't thrown around as much as the usual disco-remix suspects - Tom Moulton, Walter Gibbons, Larry Levan, etc. - but he's every bit as succes...
In time, Mott The Hoople would become their own mythic beast of rock and roll legend but they began as an experiment. A mixture of high-stakes gambling, madnes...
One of Schlockmania's favorite compilations of recent vintage was Americana: Rock Your Soul, a delightful dig through the crates of lesser known soft-rock and s...
When it is said that disco died at the end of the '70s, what that means is it died as a dominant mass-market trend of the music business. A demand for new dance...
Bad times often make for good art: the pressure of social and political discord can inspire the artist to cathartic extremes, resulting in work that is compelli...
It's been three years since the U.K. deejay collective Horse Meat Disco last released one of their mixes for disco fans. Strut Records just ended the wait by i...
