Nobody likes all the music. To start with, nobody hears everything there is to hear. If you’re a typical music fan, with a life to live...

• 100 is a notable milestone number for lot of things in life, right? If you live long enough, it’s a birthday that astonishes your...

Okay, time to bash out a few musical things rattling around my head lately. A couple of these topics were going to be their own post at...

I realized early on that keeping this list to five records was going to require some boundaries. The punk universe is huge. Once it hit...

With Crate Digging I’m occasionally going to dive into my record collection and dig out the unusual, the seldom seen, and rarely heard...

I’ve given both of these topics their own post in the past, but I’m cutting them down to size this year. They both deserve a look because...

Jeff Beck, David Crosby, and now Tom Verlaine. All within a span of a few weeks to kick off 2023. Something of a bleak start to the new...

It was all in his hands. I don't need to do a recap or explanation of Jeff Beck's career as a legendary guitar innovator, an anti-rock...

I decided on one last post before I start the deep dive into my “Best of 2022” lists. First, I wanted to offer my appreciation for a...

Anyone who knows me knows this is a big one, probably THE big one. I’ve been an obsessed fan and unashamed apologist for the Stones since...

• Ronnie’s Setlists – In addition to being the luckiest sideman in rock history, Ron Wood’s got a decent side hustle going as an artist....

This series takes a look at a year at a time and gives a quick shout-out to a half dozen records that, to me, didn’t crack the public...

The national holiday for vinyl collectors, part two. RSD is back on its pre-pandemic schedule – the big day in April and a slightly...

How many really great albums are out there? Too many to count, too many for any one person to hear. For every album that becomes a big...

Any personal collection of music in a physical format is a quirky microcosm, both of the collector’s tastes and of the music world as a...

• The Curious Case of Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab - I know from a couple previous drafts of this post that it’s damn hard not to go into...

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...