According to Christopher Long, “there ain’t nothin’ like gettin’ FREE vinyl!” And this week, he inherits a battered and tattered OG copy of Paranoid, the 1971 metal classic from Black Sabbath.

This week, author Christopher Long, rips an excerpt from his latest book, Garage Sale Vinyl, to reveal one of the hardest-hitting rock sets of the late ’70s: Heat in the Street, the 1978 stinger from Pat Travers Band.

Carl F. Gauze digs into one man’s journey through the glory days of rock and roll in Time Has Come Today: Rock and Roll Diaries 1967 – 2007, a venture that turns out to be quite the trip, when that man is Harold Bronson, Rhino Records co-founder and obsessive diarist.

Legendary Rock Photographer Bill O’Leary snapped darn near every band of note in the past forty years. Float down memory lane from Zappa to Alice Cooper.

When does a band become a brand? This new documentary examines the current state of the music business and reveals how the “brand” of a rock group now has more power than the members themselves.

Generation Axe brought their spectacular shredder show to Orlando in December, and Michelle Wilson was right there among the fans to get her face melted off.

Ozzy Osbourne’s blazing 1982 Irvine Meadows concert is re-mastered for your head-banging pleasure.

Slash [Deluxe Edition] (EMI). Review by Joe Frietze.

Reimaginator. Review by Joe Frietze.

Too young to be fully cognizant of the more embarrassing excesses of Gothic music over the past twenty years, the young Turks of NYC’s own Blacklist are, perhaps unwittingly, the best hope of redeeming Goth-metal. Fresh from a European tour complete with horned hotel antics, Blacklist frontman and provocateur Josh Strawn told Ink 19 all about how he learned to stop worrying and love Motorhead and Scott Walker equally.

Punctuated Equilibrium (Southern Lord). Review by Matthew Moyer.

While recognized more for their skin-crawling costumes than for their music, Slipknot are a speed metal band worthy of a little respect – as Jen Cray discovered recently at the Orlando date of the band’s current arena tour.

Matthew Moyer swoons over the voices inside the heads of The Legendary Pink Dots.

Valient Thorr is on a mission to save the planet through the power of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Jen Cray witnessed their latest victory on the battle fields of Orlando.

Masters of War (Big Rack Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Black Sabbath. The name alone conjures up images of protean Metal, the stuff that called the demons forth and made the parents sweat. Matthew Moyer tells us why Doom Let Loose is the definitive guide to the definitive metal band.

Super Kool (Morpheus Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Hangover Music Vol. VI (Spitfire). Review by Joe Frietze.

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Unclean (Cleopatra). Review by Carl F Gauze.