November is the month for indulgence, right? If we do it correctly, we have too much food, football, and if it’s an even-numbered year,...

I don’t typically dabble in negative reviews – life’s too short and there’s too much great music out there to talk about - but I was...

I’ve been on a serious Leonard Cohen binge lately, revisiting favorites and catching up on the records I missed the first time around....

“Jesus' blood never failed me yet, never failed me yet, Jesus' blood never failed me yet, there's one thing I know, for he loves me so…"...

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...

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...

August was a pretty fine month overall, both for new music and old faves. In real life, I landed a new freelance music writing gig that...

Yeah, I get it, who buys music anymore? I thought about calling this series a Listener’s Guide instead. But I grew up accumulating music...

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...

• 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...

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...

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