The movie, that is. The Who’s Tommy (1969) is, of course, the band’s acknowledged masterpiece, even if the story line is slightly incoheren...

Criterion’s announcement that it is issuing in August a Blu-ray edition of Marcel Camus’s Black Orpheus should remind us of how the bossa n...

Fifty years ago tonight, on 12 May 1960 (a Thursday), ABC aired the Frank Sinatra television special, “Welcome Home Elvis,” Elvis’s first te...

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...