According to a Fox News exclusive published today, Elvis may not have died in 1977 from cardiac arrhythmia, as has been widely reported, but...

A few months ago, I wrote a blog entry praising Steven Beasley’s biography of Big Band leader Kay Kyser, titled Kay Kyser: The Ol’ Professo...

Perhaps the most famous ghostly apparition in Western literature is in Act I of Shakespeare’s Hamlet , when the titular protagonist confront...

An interesting article on the late Alex Chilton has been posted on nola.com , well worth reading for anyone interested in the enigmatic rock...

It goes without saying that recording technology has had a huge impact on rock music, primarily in terms of performance. Virtually every rap...

The number nine seems to be highly regarded in our culture. For instance, when we “dress to the nines” we mean we are dressed immaculately, ...

The media has dutifully reminded us that today is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. It’s understandable why: the media loves anniversaries ...

In case you didn’t know, yesterday, April 20th or 4/20 , was “Weed Day.” 420 is, of course, a coded reference to marijuana use, and in orde...

The word fan is the shortened form of the word fanatic , from the Latin word fānāticus , an individual belonging to a particular temple, fr...

Simon Frith has observed that music “is more like clothes than any other art form” ( Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music , 1996)...

Some may remember puppeteer Shari Lewis’s children’s show, Lamb Chop’s Play-Along , that aired on PBS from 1992-97. At the end of the show, ...

On 17 April 1983—twenty-seven years ago today—Felix Pappalardi was shot and killed by his wife, Gail Collins Pappalardi. Charged with second...