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May 15, 2024 | 
southernminn.com | Jason Guest
It's estimated that at least one-in-three adults fail to consistently get sufficient restful sleep each night. Over time, poor sleep can increase the risk for a variety of chronic diseases and potentially lead to an early death. Get any of our free email newsletters - news headlines, e-edition, prep sports, obituaries, entertainment and more. Explore newslettersJason Hoisington is a chiropractor in Faribault and member of Chiro-Trust. Visit his blog at www.DrJasonHoisingtonBlog.com.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
themidlandsrocks.com | Jason Guest
“Hey, does anybody know if it’s raining outside? Yes? Shit, that’s been the weather since we got here!”20 June 1987 and Nuclear Assault are in Europe for the first time and performing at Hammersmith Odeon, the legendary venue where the legendary Motörhead didn’t perform on their legendary live album, No Sleep ‘til Hammersmith.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
themidlandsrocks.com | Jason Guest
Approximately a year before Spinal Tap would take the world by storm, four attention-seeking manboys were about to embark on their world tour of Grantham. The trials and tribulations of this bunch of wannabe world famous heavy metal musicians became the subject of a fly-on-the-wall rockumentary ingeniously entitled Bad News Tour. No recording contract, no management, no crew, it was ruthless in its depiction of a band about to embark on their long, long journey to fame and fortune.
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Jul 1, 2023 | 
themidlandsrocks.com | Jason Guest
Steven Wilson’s remixes of albums by prog rock giants King Crimson, Caravan, Jethro Tull, ELP, Yes, Gentle Giant, Marillion, Rush, and Hawkwind are fantastic, bringing out aspects of the music that elevate them to a whole new listening experience. Released ten years ago in a 3CD package, mixed from the original master tapes, and cut at Abbey Road, Studios Wilson’s remix of Warrior on the Edge of Time is getting the vinyl re-issue treatment.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
themidlandsrocks.com | Jason Guest
Remastered from the original master tapes and resplendent in a gatefold vinyl edition that faithfully reproduces the original 1971 release, once more the mellotron swells, the orchestra – the full orchestra, no less! – sweeps, and the melancholy weeps for Barclay James Harvest’s 1971 Norman Smith-produced album, Once Again.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
themidlandsrocks.com | Jason Guest
Allegedly never to be released until its creators forgot about it, 1978’s Not Available became available due to 1977’s Eskimo being, ironically, unavailable until 1979 because of delays and arguments with management. Now, 45(ish) years later, Cherry Red Records are making Not Available available again, but this time with the 1974 X Is For Xtra recordings which were adapted, edited, remixed, and reprocessed into Not Available released by Ralph Records in 1978.
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Jun 16, 2023 | 
themidlandsrocks.com | Jason Guest
Nailbomb was formed in 1993 as a side project by Max Cavelera (then-but-no-longer of Sepultura) and Alex Newport (of Fudge Tunnel) that recorded one studio album released a year later. Commercial success was not on the agenda. Pissing everybody off was. In 1995, they played a warm-up gig followed two days later by their second and last gig at the Dynamo Open Festival in the Netherlands. Then, not half an hour later, Nailbomb had passed on. The band was no more. Ceased to be. Expired.
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May 15, 2023 | 
themidlandsrocks.com | Jason Guest
The Residents are nuts. Yeah? Tell us something we don’t know. Destroyers of music since their inception – or at least since they materialised on this planet sometime during the self-induced hallucinations of the masses in the late 60s/early 70s – The Residents were doing their utmost to kill commercial music. Well, maybe not kill it, but perhaps reminding us that it was dead. And we had killed it. The Beatles had done it all, after all.
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May 14, 2023 | 
themidlandsrocks.com | Jason Guest
The future doesn’t look good. The present looks a bit shabby. And the recent past could’ve done with a shower, a shampoo, and a shave too, couldn’t it? The past few years have tested everyone’s ability to remain sane. With an unforgiving suicidal economic system, open warfare in the cultural and political landscapes, and technology continuing to tighten its chokehold, dystopia has become the new norm. We should have seen this coming, shouldn’t we?
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Apr 8, 2023 | 
themidlandsrocks.com | Jason Guest
Words by Jason GuestRemarking in his 1936 autobiography that “music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all”, Stravinsky may very well be correct. However, music can have a significant – even overwhelming – impact. Especially the music of Stravinsky.
