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About Me

The one & only Rev. Keith A. Gordon is the Reverend of Rock & Roll, the Pastor of Punk, the Monk of Metal and the Brother of the Blues. A music journalist with 35+ years walking the pop culture beat, Reverend.K has seen and heard it all and written about most of it!

The Reverend began preaching his sermon of rock & roll, cheap thrills and DIY culture from a shotgun sharecropper's shack located in a rural area outside of Nashville, Tennessee during the late-80s. These days, his metal ministry of punk rock salvation is based in the quaint village of Batavia, New York, located somewhere between Buffalo and Rochester.

As a music journalist, rock critic and freelance writer, the Reverend has had his words appear in over 100 regional, national and international publications, including Harp Magazine, Creem, the East Village Other, High Times, Singapore's Big O Magazine and Jersey Beat. For seven years circa 1999-2006, the Reverend.K edited and published the ALT.CULTURE.GUIDE,, music webzine and book series, and he is the author of ROCK TALK, a collection of exclusive artist interviews taken from his files. Currently the Rev preaches of the sins of the music industry on his Ryan Adams Sucks blog and is working on a project about Nashville's rock underground circa 1976-2006 called The Other Side Of Nashville .

Happily and joyfully married since 1989, the Reverend and his wife share their antique colonial-styled home with seven cats (Image, Fluffy, Fate, Puck, Ozzie, Felix & Zak Wilder) and two dogs (Mugsy & Maggie), who all happen to love the Ramones. (R.I.P. Pumpkin the mighty hunter, 1989-2007)

Check out the Reverend's musings on music and pop culture at any of the web sites listed below:

Trademark Of Quality audioblog

Ryan Adams Sucks music biz blog

The Other Side Of Nashville project blog

Alt.Culture.Guide Archives

TMQ Zine Archive

Devil Music Television

The Reverend in Harp Magazine

The Reverend on Associated Content

Never has the need to help the West Memphis 3 been greater than it is today! Visit the links below to find out more about this case and to find out how you can support the efforts to free these three innocent young men!

My Interests

Music, music and more music. When not listening to music, or even while listening to music, the Reverend also enjoys writing, building computer systems, web surfing, reading, movies, television, comic books, Japanese toys, weird art (think Juxtapoz mag) and other flotsam and jetsam of popular and alternative culture.

Music:

The Ramones, Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band, Frank Zappa & the Mothers Of Invention, Joe Grushecky & the (Iron City) Houserockers, Jason & the (Nashville) Scorchers, Howlin' Wolf, the Clash, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Aashid, the Dictators, Magic Sam, Eugene Chadbourne, Spock's Beard, Black Sabbath, Project: Failing Flesh, Webb Wilder, Tommy Womack, Witchcraft, Muddy Waters, Led Zeppelin, the New York Dolls, Spirit, Max Vague, Steve Vai, Killing Joke, Govt. Cheese, Grand Funk Railroad, Zakk Wylde, Entombed, Saint Vitus, Ayreon, Uriah Heep, Voivod, Megadeth, the Flower Kings, Intruder, Rancid, Pete Berwick, R. Stevie Moore, Living Colour, King's X, the MC5, Iggy & the Stooges, Jello Biafra & the Dead Kennedys, Albert King, Freddie King and the King of Rock, Elvis, of course....

Movies:

The Godfather 1, 2 and 3; The Warriors, Suburbia, Night Of The Comet, The Runnin' Kind, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Pretty In Pink, Animal House, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Kill Bill 1 & 2, The Commitments, School Of Rock, Star Wars, The Matrix, Spider-Man, The Blues Brothers (both movies) and the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.

Television:

24, Homicide: Life On The Streets, Millennium, The X-Files, Lost, Bones, C.S.I., The Daily Show, The Lone Gunmen, The Shield, The Sopranos, Oz, The Colbert Report, The Simpsons, Brisco County, M.A.S.H. and Murder One (seasons one and two)

Books:

Favorite Writers of Fiction: William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Heinlein, Stephen Womack and Andrew Vachss

Favorite Non-Fiction Writers: Bruce Sterling, Robert Anton Wilson, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Adam Parfrey and Hunter S. Thompson

Favorite Music Journalists/Writers: Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Jim DeRogatis, Fred Mills, Peter Guralnick, Jim Testa, Kim Cooper, Richie Unterberger, Clint Heylin and Robert Gordon. Does anybody remember Rick Johnson?

Favorite Comix: Transmetropolitan, 100 Bullets, The Dark Knight series (Frank Miller), Sin City (more Frank Miller), Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Zap Comix, Daredevil (especially Frank Miller's), Batman, Area 88, the Incredible Hulk (Peter David), the Checkered Demon and just about any late-60s superhero rag (Spider-Man, the Avengers, Batman).

Heroes:

Abbie Hoffman, Frank Zappa, Timothy Leary, Bob Dylan, Robert Anton Wilson, Ron Hull, Jim Keith, Sacco & Vanzetti and probably some that I can't think of at the moment...

My Blog

Nashville Rockers Due Dollars From Digital!

Hey Gang! Over on the Reverend's The Other Side Of Nashville book project blog, I just posted an article that will be of interest to any musician, whether you live in Nashville or not. It tells of Sou...
Posted by Rev. Keith A. Gordon on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:18:00 PST

Remembering Sean Costello

Blues guitarist Sean Costello died yesterday, one day short of his 29th birthday. The Reverend has put together a video tribute to this phenomenal artist on his That Devil Music Dot Com website. If yo...
Posted by Rev. Keith A. Gordon on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:58:00 PST

TMQ New Reviews: Webb Wilder & Justin Townes Earle

New review time on the Trademark of Quality blog, kiddies! The Rev has graced cyberspace with reviews of new CDs from Webb Wilder and Justin Townes Earle. Check 'em out, only on the Rev's TMQ blog (fr...
Posted by Rev. Keith A. Gordon on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:11:00 PST

The lost liner notes for Return To Elliston Square

Nashville's Spat! Records has released Return To Elliston Square, a very cool compilation of local music circa 1979-1989. What you didn't know is that the label didn't use ALL of the liner notes that ...
Posted by Rev. Keith A. Gordon on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:01:00 PST

TMQ New Reviews: Mooney Suzuki & the Romantics

More new reviews, only on TMQ! Check out the Reverend’s wordiness on coverage of the Mooney Suzuki’s incredible live album and a long overdue reissue from the Romantics, courtesy of our fr...
Posted by Rev. Keith A. Gordon on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:57:00 PST

Dancing On The Edge with Sahg & American Speedway

The Reverend has cranked out reviews of two new hard-rockin’ discs, available only on his new "Dancing On The Edge" blog. Join us in welcoming the blog and reviews of discs from doom-metal merch...
Posted by Rev. Keith A. Gordon on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:36:00 PST

TMQ New Reviews: Nick Lowe & Drivin-N-Cryin

The Reverend, in a futile attempt to catch up on reviewing the stack o’ wax teetering dangerously on the shelf by his desk, has posted reviews of two exceptional reissue CDs: Drivin-N-Cryin&rsqu...
Posted by Rev. Keith A. Gordon on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:41:00 PST

Bruce Springsteen Buffalo Show Review

The Reverend braved wind and snow and ice last Friday night, March 7th to travel to Buffalo to witness the Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band perform live at HSBC Arena. Read all about it here,...
Posted by Rev. Keith A. Gordon on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:10:00 PST

Ringo Starr Liverpool 8 review

The Reverend has finally finished his review of Ringo Starr's new album, Liverpool 8, for his Trademark of Quality blog. Check it out through the link below, watch Ringo's fab video for the title trac...
Posted by Rev. Keith A. Gordon on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:35:00 PST

Get out of the way of the Waco Express!

Read 'bout it before it hits the retail racks! The Reverend's Trademark of Quality blog has a review of the new Waco Brothers live CD, Waco Express - Live & Kickin', along with mp3s from the album...
Posted by Rev. Keith A. Gordon on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:06:00 PST