Glenn Gould scandalized the classical music community in the 1960s when he acknowledged that the recordings on his LPs were spliced together...

1. “The Top 500 Albums of All Time”—another name for the outcome of a questionnaire, a device derived from a nineteenth-century parlor game....

1. Marx revised Hegel by averring all great historic personages appear twice, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. When appl...

1. To lift a phrase from Brecht, it is the special dignity of rock—entertainment—that makes it so very difficult to be a rock critic: the fu...

A few days ago, Livedaily.com posted an article indicating that the inimitable Van Morrison scheduled in early November two evening concert...

I read in the paper this morning that Nick Reynolds (on the right in the photo), founding member of the Kingston Trio, died Wednesday in San...

1. The Kingsmen’s “Louie, Louie,” not Bob Dylan, taught rock musicians a fundamental lesson in writing lyrics: the best are highly ambiguous...

...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...