RSD 2025 / Bob Dylan LIVE / NEW The Replacements & KISS / Rant About "No Phone" Shows + more (VIDEO)

Welcome to the newest edition of "This Year's Week" -- my wrap-up video of everything happening in the world of The Dark Stuff.

There's new music from KISS, The Replacements, and members of The Bangles to discuss, as well as some recent concerts from Bob Dylan and The Spirit of 1989 "hair metal" tour featuring Trixter, Enuff Z'Nuff, and Pretty Boy Floyd. This week gave us Record Store Day, and naturally, I had to partake.

I also have a rant about "no phone" shows and this month's playlist.

NEW VIDEO: Vinyl Pickups July 2023

This week's Dark Stuff video has just been posted! This week, it's a vinyl pickups video from recent trips to 402 Vinyl, Homer's, Grapefruit Records, and the Omaha Record Show.

Artists mentioned: Tommy Stinson's Cowboys In The Campfire, Rick Nelson, Elvis Costello, Honeymoon Suite, Wanda Jackson, Fats Domino, Tommy Bolin, Blue Oyster Cult, and Bob Dylan.

R.I.P. Suze Rotolo

To most, Suze Rotolo is the girl on the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album (Dylan's second, released in 1963). But Rotolo, who died yesterday from lung cancer, was Dylan's girlfriend from 1961-64. She had a profound impact on him, and is thought to be the inspiration behind many of Dylan's early, best songs. Her activism in the Civil Rights movement certainly affected Dylan. She was witness to almost the entire "folk period" of Dylan's long career, and wrote a book, A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, detailing her time with Dylan and the early 60s folk music scene.

Rotolo went on to become a visual artist and teacher. She was 67 years old.