For well over a century, music composers have allied themselves with engineers. For an example, consider German engineer Harald Bode, whose ...

In the second of two parts, guest blogger Eric Roberts continues his summary of the search for the whereabouts of John Lennon's White R...

Guest blogger Eric Roberts provides a summary of the search for the whereabouts of John Lennon's White Rolls Royce (EUC 100C) that has t...

This past week I happened to see two movies from different decades and noticed that the electronic novelty, the SONOVOX , serendipitously ap...

I suspect those like me who pre-ordered The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box Collector's Edition (for informati...

In Chapter Nine of Philip K. Dick's We Can Build You , Sam Barrows dismisses the Lincoln simulacrum's desire to "speechify...

Angelus Novus (1920) by Paul Klee Theorist and critic Walter Benjamin owned this watercolor for many years. In his essay, "Theses o...

I told you about the walrus and me, man. You know that we're as close as can be, man. Well, here's another riddle for you all: A g...

It is a generally accepted fact that it was Columbia Records' executive Mitch Miller's idea to do the first "greatest hits...

According to this site , a reissue is “the repeated issue of a published work,” and is also known as a “re-release” or “re-edition.” But wha...

An article in today’s L. A. Times includes the announcement that Edward O. Bland’s 1959 documentary short The Cry of Jazz is among the tw...

Among the many nice gifts I received for Christmas this year were two Elvis CDs containing rare outtakes, one titled '60-'61 Session...