From the Desk of Lou Waxman
National Lampoon’s Stereo Test Record: One Doll...
One dollar buys a stereo test record. Naturally, Lou turns it into a digression on MAD magazine, Doug Kenney, hi-fi culture, and the dangerous genius of National Lampoon.
National Lampoon’s Stereo Test Record: One Doll...
One dollar buys a stereo test record. Naturally, Lou turns it into a digression on MAD magazine, Doug Kenney, hi-fi culture, and the dangerous genius of National Lampoon.
Gimme Back My Bullets: Lynyrd Skynyrd and the “...
A barroom brush-off, a lifetime of second guesses, and a Lynyrd Skynyrd record from The Vogue. Lou revisits Gimme Back My Bullets, the “Free Bird” that got away, and the...
Gimme Back My Bullets: Lynyrd Skynyrd and the “...
A barroom brush-off, a lifetime of second guesses, and a Lynyrd Skynyrd record from The Vogue. Lou revisits Gimme Back My Bullets, the “Free Bird” that got away, and the...
Jailhouse Blues: B.B. King, Cook County and Lou...
What is it about prison that brings out the best in musicians? B.B. King entered Cook County Jail in 1970 and emerged with one of the great live blues albums....
Jailhouse Blues: B.B. King, Cook County and Lou...
What is it about prison that brings out the best in musicians? B.B. King entered Cook County Jail in 1970 and emerged with one of the great live blues albums....
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Animals and...
Lou has said it before, and he will say it again. And again. And again. Because Lou does not really have that much to say. But there are musical artists...
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Animals and...
Lou has said it before, and he will say it again. And again. And again. Because Lou does not really have that much to say. But there are musical artists...
Beer with Lou: The Greatest Drinking Novel of A...
Lou’s readers keep making requests, so he’s finally answering one: What is the greatest novel about drinking beer? Several thousand words, Jesus at the bar, Raymond Carver parodies, Bukowski, Kerouac,...
Beer with Lou: The Greatest Drinking Novel of A...
Lou’s readers keep making requests, so he’s finally answering one: What is the greatest novel about drinking beer? Several thousand words, Jesus at the bar, Raymond Carver parodies, Bukowski, Kerouac,...
Fuck Cock Rock: W.A.S.P., Codpieces, Chris Holm...
Matt at Vinyl Vogue offers Lou a spin of W.A.S.P.’s 1984 debut, and what begins as an appreciation of glorious glam-metal schlock becomes an investigation into one of rock’s most...
Fuck Cock Rock: W.A.S.P., Codpieces, Chris Holm...
Matt at Vinyl Vogue offers Lou a spin of W.A.S.P.’s 1984 debut, and what begins as an appreciation of glorious glam-metal schlock becomes an investigation into one of rock’s most...