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...

• 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...

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...

Last Friday saw some decent new album releases and I enjoyed giving several of them a listen, as always. So far, I’m not sure if any of...

Not everything that springs to mind about the current music scene, or this blog, needs a full post on its own. Every once in a while,...

Those of you who read these posts or know me personally are aware that I have a decent-sized vinyl record collection that I cherish. I’ve...

This year marks the 15th anniversary of Record Store Day, a joint promotion between record labels and independent record stores around...

Bowie’s catalog is a tough one to assess over the long haul. He continued to make excellent albums up until his death in 2016, but from...

The nominees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2022 were just announced (and the crowd goes wild!). How the final inductees are...

Some of my favorite artists are even older than me and have been putting out records for a very long time. I was still a kid when I...

I can hear you now - “What’s Paul McCartney doing in this series?” Certainly, a former Beatle never left the public consciousness? It’s...

"Mathematics is the music of reason."...James Joseph Sylvester I do love to play around with numbers, almost as much as I enjoy playing...

Music genres are becoming ever more fluid in this age of digital streaming. There was a time I could have rattled off the major genres...