As a form of popular music, 1950s doo-wop was characterized by its playful use of nonsense syllables (take, for instance, the hyphenate “doo...

I am saddened by today's news, as reported by IndieWIRE, that the decades-old distributor of European and arthouse cinema in North Ameri...

1. Record Collecting —A pseudo-scientific activity motivated by the same obsessive narrowness of focus that characterizes the autistic mi...

According to John Tobler’s This Day In Rock (Carroll & Graf, 1993), on this day in 1977, Fleetwood Mac released one of the biggest-sell...

Frequent visitors to this blog know that I submitted a proposal, on Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night , to Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series of ...

A few days ago, over at the 33 1/3 blogspot , John Mark posted a link to an article about performance artist Genesis P-Orridge (second from...

Slightly over a week ago, in my February 1st entry , I observed that it is possible now to make a record simply by recombining fragments of ...

The local paper reported this morning that DEWEY MARTIN (second from left), the former drummer and singer for Buffalo Springfield, has died...

In literature classes in our high schools and colleges, the preferred method of study is hermeneutically driven and formally conservative: i...

Lux Interior (born Erick Purkheiser, second from left), leader and voice of The Cramps, died yesterday from a heart ailment at the age of 62...

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson (“The Big Bopper”) died fifty years ago today in a plane crash that occurred just a few mi...

Yesterday, soon after posting my blog, “Post Rock,” I happened to read about Neil Young’s hilarious new single, “Fork in the Road,” in the l...