Pills and Ammo Makes #1 on Little Steven's Top 10

‘Pills and Ammo’ and the single “Cross That Line” were both included by several hosts of Little Steven’s nationally syndicated Underground Garage radio show on their annual Sirius XM “Year End Top 10 Lists”. Little Steven Van Zandt and legendary rock DJ Kid Leo both named ‘Pills and Ammo’ as their #1 album of 2010. Sirius XM hosts Ko Melina and Genya Raven placed ‘Pills and Ammo’ in their Top Ten for the year as well.

“Cross That Line” also left its mark on the Underground Garage crew; Little Steven Van Zandt, Kid Leo, Genya Raven and Kim Fowley all placed the single in their Top Ten lists for the year. Additionally, fans voted “Cross That Line” #7 in the “2010 Coolest Song in the World” listener’s poll. “Harder Than It Looks” was also nominated and received votes in the poll.

Throughout 2010 on the Underground Garage, Little Steven proclaimed ‘Pills and Ammo’ songs “Cross That Line”, “Harder Than It Looks” and “One More Night To Rock’” as Coolest Song In The World weekly winners.

Source: SouthsideJohnny.com

The full listing of all Year-End Top-Tens

Little Steven: From E-Street to Easy Street

The Evening HeraldLittle Steven got interviewed by the EVENING HERALD, an Irish newspaper published in Dublin. While the motivation for the writeup has been the syndication of Steven’s UNDERGROUND GARAGE radio program on a Dublin station, he does give some reflections about his musical career pre-1999 and promotes his latest campaign.

The success of the show has prompted Steve to lobby for rock’n'roll to be accepted as a bone fide college degree course. To that end he’s fundraising for his High School Foundation project.

“We’ve been endorsed from inside the academic community which hasn’t happened before,” he reveals. “Rock’n'roll is still the last outcast. You can get curriculums on movie making or jazz but rock’n'roll has been late to the game. Bruce Springsteen, Martin Scorsese and Bono are my first three board members so it’s going to be extremely exciting.”

Although the interview doesn’t really focus on Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Steve does give some insight into his – an that’s been probably more than true for Southside as well – personal situation in the 1990s…

“I had walked away from music,” he tells me. “I couldn’t relate any more. Grunge was happening. There was a good band or two there, Pearl Jam, Kurt Cobain. But I’m strictly a rootsy guy. If I don’t hear the roots in contemporary rock’n'roll it’s irrelevant to me. In the early ’90s, I’d produced four albums in a row including a Southside Johnny reunion record. There was no reason to make a great record anymore.

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