“Painter John Strickland” was a necessary characterization to get the first paragraph dealt with, but let me...
Music
Naomi Judd has passed. I mourn the death of a woman who embodied hope, feminism and zero...
Dire Straits is one of those bands that put out well-written and well-played rock music for over...
The Rhythm changes is just one contrafact that gave us our treasure trove of pop and jazz...
To see Pink Floyd come together today to raise awareness of the tragedy unfolding in the Ukraine...
Successful musicians, athletes, politicians, big business; they all figured how to beat taxes while asking us to...
I blow hot and cold on whether rock and roll has been, on balance, a force for...
Warren Ellis's new book "Nina Simone's Gum" is everyone he encountered in his mad quest to save...
Looking back into the history of rock and roll you can see how bands dealt with the...
Calling the 90s the Grunge Era does a massive disservice to the generation’s wide range of quality...
Back then I was not a fan of the hair bands and was a straight up classic...
I have always been intrigued by movie and tv soundtracks. When the right song is paired to...
Road songs. We all have them. Every genre of music has them. So dear reader, Here’s a...
That feeling I have deep down inside that Paul sings about? That feeling manifests itself in different...
Talisk isn’t just your usual neighborhood acoustic Scottish folk trio, all jigs and reels and hornpipes, no
This is not a review of The Beatles: Get Back, This is more of an observation that...
Seriously, if you never listened to either of Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hells you really should.
The Meat Loaf/Steinman madcap musical universe of sex, and drums, and way over-the-top rock and roll comes...
Today’s theme, our last, is Counting Songs. Today I offer two counting songs. Let’s begin with the...
St. Stephen’s Day is celebrated on December 26th. Or the 27th. Or January 9th. Look, it depends...
