While there’s a rather obvious connection between comics (“sequential narratives”) and motion pictures, the connection between comics and po...

Perusing the used record bins in the local Goodwill Store the other day, I came across the worn, tattered cover (no LP inside) of a K-Tel co...

Trivia question: What was the first album in the history of rock to include the disclaimer, “This Record Was Made To Be Played Loud”? I cann...

In her book, Women and Popular Music (Routledge, 2000), Sheila Whiteley is interested in identifying and examining female archetypes in pop...

On this day in 1982, David Crosby fell into a drug-induced slumber while taking a spin on the San Diego Freeway. Although he crashed into th...

For Georges Bataille, who thought a great deal about what constitutes human pleasure, for pleasure to be what it is, it has to exceed a limi...

According to Roland Barthes, virtually all music criticism “is only ever translated into the poorest of linguistic categories: the adjective...

I’ve noticed pop-ups consisting of “IQ Tests” seem to have become ubiquitous on the web lately, an interesting phenomenon that I cannot let ...

Jacques Lacan observed that public life in the Western world, rather like the majority of primitive communities, is subjected to the laws of...

In theory, rock ‘n’ roll is an egalitarian artform, having derived from an ideology of amateurism (as opposed to professionalism). Because o...

As if in response to the massive media campaign that has geared up to promote U2’s latest album, NO LINE ON THE HORIZON , Andrew Gumbel has ...

In my and Rebecca’s book, Donald Cammell: A Life on the Wild Side (FAB Press, 2006), we discussed Donald Cammell’s proposed film of Vladimi...