Essays
A couple of weeks ago, as I was performing some obligatory household chores, I was…
‘Walk the Line’, the musical biopic on Johnny Cash’s life has recently received its European…
One day, not so very long ago, I went over to a boy’s house to…
The un-official Bob Dylan month culminated in the showing of ‘Bob Dylan: No Direction Home’…
England have won the World Cup! Not the football (or ‘soccer’ as you yanks may…
Lyrics are a funny thing. Intelligent and interesting music need strong lyrics. But if they…
Curses to it all, that damned music press it at it again. They’re always doing…
Spring is here again, and you know what that means: love is in the air,…
The “break-up album” is a special breed of record. It takes the personal pain and…
Camaraderie It may seem a concept both hokey and archaic in this age of the…
I bought Radiohead’s Kid A in the fall of 2000, when I was an awkward,…
A look at the history and impact of bootlegging on the music industry. Not to…
The gladioli are in flight. On the stage of the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood,…