Tony Rettman is a freelance music journalist whose work has appeared in The Village Voice, Vice, Philadelphia Weekly, Cleveland Scene, Arthur, Swindle, Signal to Noise, Mean and Thrasher. In 2010, Revelation Records Publishing released his first book, Why Be Something That You’re Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985. Rettman is currently working on his second book; an oral history of the New York Hardcore Punk scene.
Tony Rettman
Top 10 Drug Songs
Before songs like the Beatles’ ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’, Jefferson Airplane's’ ‘White Rabbit’ and the Velvet Underground's ‘Heroin’ became commonplace, drug references in popular music were quite rare. When the aforementioned songs were sent out into the mid-'60s' bubbling counterculture, they served as a secret handshake among like-minded people...
How the Allman Brothers Band Regrouped for ‘Brothers and Sisters’
To say they were up against a wall in the fall of 1972 would be something of an understatement.