...because, as Hamlet said, “The rest is silence.” Such is my reaction when I confront a title such as 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You D...

According to Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary , the musical term riff is probably an altered or shortened form of the word refrain , an ...

The November 2008 issue (#355) of the British magazine Record Collector presents the Top 200 of the most valuable albums of all time produc...

1. The collocations “art rock” and “progressive rock” are merely distinctions without a difference: both are attempts to assuage pop guilt. ...

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...