This list started out as five albums, then ten. Finally, after some agonizing, I settled on a dozen. It’s killin’ me to leave off some...

I've been spending July listening to new releases and digging through the crates about equally. These four have been in the spotlight in...

I realized that my last Short Takes was a little hard on the elder rockers I mentioned. I wanted to follow up and make clear that it’s...

• Hear Me Out: I'm raising a glass to one of my all-time favorite albums, and the one least likely for any reader of this blog to have...

This list’s pretty self-explanatory, just a couple of quick things to mention. I included films that are pretty much all live performance...

• You know something makes me feel old these days? Commercials make me feel old. Especially commercials for tampons and toilet paper, two...

I took a slightly different approach to this roundup. I tried to put myself in other's shoes and rank these records in order of...

Time to get caught up on the last couple weeks of new releases before the new batch arrives tomorrow. These are the records that stuck on...

Lou is in an elite category of musical heroes for me. Like the Stones, Miles, the Beatles, a few others, I lost all ability to be...

Some new discoveries, some old favorites. Here are the albums that got stuck on my personal playlist in May. No particular order, I just...

• Do you feel frisson?: There’s a recent article on the website Big Think that put a name to a physical experience I’ve enjoyed my whole...

I was taking a leisurely weekend stroll through my local library and came across this book - Appetite for Definition: An A-Z Guide to...

Gotta love the magic of the internet. With a little excavation, you can go back in time to see your favorite artists long before the...

I’m kind of inventing my own category for this post. It was triggered by spinning a couple of albums on this list recently. These are...

Stop One (Saturday): Saturday was beautiful, sunny and 70s, always appreciated when you know in this state there was every possibility it...

I totally loved these guys when they first arrived in the late 70s. Their first few albums were like a breath of fresh air in the time of...

Picking up where Part One left off, I was starting to feel like an experienced, savvy concert goer by the late 1980s, and was choosing...

Not counting acts like local bands in bars, or city festivals with bands rotating on and off makeshift stages during the day, I’ve seen...

From what I’ve been able to dig up, the quote “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” likely originated with either...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers released an new album today. I'm not a huge fan, or a small one for that matter, but the way Unlimited Love is...