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IRON MAIDEN @ 50 is available for pre-order! Release date is September 16, 2025! Yes, I cannot afford to retire so I will just keep churning out books until I die.  Pre-order now!

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!! The ink is barely dry on the contract but I am pleased to report that I will be doing another book with the good people at Quarto. They've started a series of books about individual albums, and I will be doing one about "2112," the 1976 studio album by Rush that was their big breakthrough. Yes, I just wrote a whole other book about them, but as I said in the introduction to that one, I could talk about this band forever and never get sick of it. So it is with great joy and anticipation that I put on my kimono and begin this project, which is scheduled to land on bookstore shelves in 2026. 

The final podcast of this year of our lord 2024 is upon us! This time, I discussed "RUSH at 50" with Mike Wiles of Retro Rock Roundup, and it was glorious. Press the button!

Please enjoy my latest podcast interview for "RUSH @ 50," this time with Staci Layne Wilson of Rock & Roll Nightmares. It was a great interview and she asked insightful questions, but it's a good thing I didn't find out until after I did it that her father had been a member of the Ventures. I would have been too awestruck to answer intelligently if I had known that beforehand.

My latest "RUSH @ 50" podcast interview is up. This time, my victim is Métal Maniaques, a music and horror podcast who had me on last year. We had a long and winding discussion in which we touched on both topics, including why CGI sucks. Press the button!

I know next to nothing about sports, yet I was nonetheless invited to appear on The Sports-Casters podcast to discuss RUSH @ 50. Press the little button thingy below to hear it. I'm at the 1:15:25 mark.

My new interview with The Five Count radio show in Mankato, Minnesota is up! Listen to me as I expound on various matters pertaining to my book RUSH @ 50! Press the button!

My latest RUSH @ 50 interview is up, this time from the good people at the Rock and Roll Confessional podcast. It was a really great and wide-ranging interview, and the hosts, Rita Wilde and CW West, are consummate professionals who asked great questions. Press the button below to listen.

I was recently interviewed by one Max Volume of the KOZZ podcasts to talk about RUSH @ 50. A lot of my other interviews for this book have been pretty long, since I can just flap my gums about this band forever, but this one comes in at under 13 minutes! It's the perfect interview for the professional on the go.

I was recently a guest on the Seth Williams Show, where I talked about RUSH @ 50 and various related matters. Click the button thingy, and I come in at about the 28:00 mark.

I was recently on the Chaz & AJ show to talk about RUSH @ 50. Please press the button thingy, and you can find me at the 33:40 mark, being my inimitable self. 

I'm in the Library of Congress for the second time! Six years after they published my essay about Metallica's "Master of Puppets," they have allowed me to opine on the subject of Blondie's "Parallel Lines" album. Press the little button thingy to read it.