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...

I’m indulging in a quick year-end wrap-up, since that seems to be a social media thing to do. My method for determining what my favorite...

“If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.” That’s a quote from the great Aretha Franklin, and it pretty...

This idea occurred to me as I pulled a record out of the stacks to play a while back. It was a greatest hits album, the only album I own...

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...

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...

Okay gang, this is my last look back at the year that was. I had a few different ideas about how to put the final pin in 2022 but,...

This best-of-2022 batch includes the stuff record companies dug out of their vaults and released, often for the first time; remasters...