Guardian Music — Okkervil River's extravagant new album sounds like a lunge at the big time, reckons Alexis PetridisSome albums take time, slowly revealing their meanings and aims only after repeated listening. Others seem to announce their intentions the moment you ... more info
Totally Fuzzy —
Rowe’s honest and haunting songwriting have already earned comparisons to Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks phase, for his abstract lyric phrasing, and the way he crafts an experience of emotion, rather than telling a linear tale. Most powerfully he ... more info
Popdose — Was Michael Stipe bat-shit crazy back in the '80s too? Did REO Speedwagon have any balls at all? Debate these and other topics as we look at more rock songs from the '80s. more info
Popdose — The world doesn’t need another greatest hits album — we’ve already got three goddamn Essential REO Speedwagon collections, and enough bargain-basement repackaged crap to fill truck stop carousels from coast to coast. That’s why, instead of an... more info
Popdose — The world doesn’t need another greatest hits album — we’ve already got three goddamn Essential REO Speedwagon collections, and enough bargain-basement repackaged crap to fill truck stop carousels from coast to coast. That’s why, instead of an... more info
TMZ — Filed under: Kevin Cronin, Memba Them, Beauty
With '80s hits like " Keep On Loving You " and " Can't Fight This Feeling ," Kevin Cronin became famous as the lead singer of REO Speedwagon . Guess what he looks li... more info
Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offAloe Blacc I Need a Dollar Here, Blacc manages to make the story of begging for money to buy whiskey and wine sound almost glamorous. The Marvin and Curtis-inspired trimming... more info
Popdose — Why was REO Speedwagon's classic "Keep on Loving You" a hit? Rob Smith explores the topic in his latest "Death by Power Ballad" column, only at Popdose. more info
Topix — Disco stars Gloria Gaynor and The Village People , blues man Delbert McClinton , country rockers Poco and arena rockers REO Speedwagon all are among the rock oldies act playing this year's American Music Festival at the Virginia Beach oceanfront Sept... more info