Legendary movie star Paul Newman died Friday at his home near Westport, Connecticut, after a long battle with cancer. He was 83. The fascina...

The cultural practice known as “cruising”—defined by Phil Patton as “to drive without purpose”—is largely a post-World War II phenomenon, th...

The existence of the one-hit wonder —a designation used within the music industry to refer to a musician or band known almost exclusively fo...

1. Tennyson might say that the special agony of the “Baby Boom” generation is that it must watch its rock gods grow old and gray and beyond ...

In one of the most famous scenes in all of dramatic literature, Juliet, one of the two very young star-cross’d lovers in Shakespeare’s trage...

For the synthesists of the late 1960s, as Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco point out in their fine book Analog Days (2002), to be properly rec...

Perhaps because Americans are so preoccupied with material acquisition, the workplace (or office space) is essential to their lives, a locat...

The term Krautrock refers, following the concise definition provided by Michael Jarrett , to “a genre of German experimental rock that orig...

The BBC reported this morning that Rick Wright, founding member of Pink Floyd and that band's distinctive keyboardist, has died followin...

Drum roll please . . . According to the Billboard Hot 100 chart, what’s the most popular single of the past 50 years? Is it by Elvis? The B...

Artwork courtesy of Michael Easton and Christopher Shy With this post, I have the distinct honor of being among the first to announce the fo...

An ancient adage says, “The eyes are the window to the soul,” while in the Gospel of Mark the eyes are likened to the windows of the heart ...