Glenn Frey is dead. It's a hard January for fans of aging rockers. The Eagles are about as polarizing as any band in rock history. Yet I am oddly indifferent. I find The Eagles pretty listenable but don't own any of their albums. If a...
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Oh, OK: When Mr. Bowie moved to Berlin, Mr. Pop occupied a room in Mr. Bowie’s apartment there “over the auto parts store,” he said. The title song for Mr..
You need Sunday School today. Specifically, to listen to Professor Sun Ra lecture in his course he gave in 1971 at UC-Berkeley titled "The Black Man in the Cosmos." The.
I don't know how people really come up with definitive Top 10 album lists. But everyone loves them. Even the AARP has one! I listen to a ton of music, at almost every waking moment, and unless you are dedicated strictly to listening to new...
In the 1970s, James Brown and Porter Wagoner became friends. Wagoner was of course a major player in country music and so he managed to schedule the Godfather of Soul.
I was lucky enough to see Satoko Fujii's quarter Tobira, starring my college roommate Todd Nicholson on bass, at Firehouse 12 in New Haven this evening. This is a clip.
One band I've been listening to a lot lately is Ibeyi. For fairly minimalist music, there's a lot going on here. They have an interesting backstory too, daughters of a famous Cuban musician who sing in both English and Yoruba. Probably not for all tastes,...
We haven't had a thread about the nation's best band of the last decade lately, so it's worth noting that "Little Miami" might be the best song Wussy has ever.
The other day I was listening to an album by the great Irving Fields, the brilliant pianist who merged jazz, the sort of Jewish-American popular music I associate with Catskills.
Above: Oum Khaltoum This is a great read taking you on a tour of the first recorded music from spots around the world in the mid to late 1920s. Well worth your time. And a discussion on the evolution of the cheating song in country...
A Friday evening link to one of my very favorite songs of 2015.
Above: ISIS founder and accordion terrorist Frank Yankovich. When will the terrorists stop attacking us with their squeezeboxes? More than two hours. More than 30 police, fire and rescue workers..