I’m kind of inventing my own category for this post. It was triggered by spinning a couple of albums on this list recently. These are...

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...

If you need any convincing that women are having an impressive commercial impact on the music industry these days all you have to do is...

New releases are in full swing now, racing along in pre-pandemic numbers. Bands are touring again, so they want their records out. Some...

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...

The music biz survived the holidays, weathered the post-holiday hangovers, and is back on track releasing a significant number of new...

Mick Jagger once famously sang “I need a shot of salvation, baby / once in a while.” Apparently, that’s true even for a heathen like me,...

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...

New releases are finally starting to roll out in earnest in 2022 and a few have been stuck in my personal rotation since they arrived....

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...

New releases are finally, slowly, starting to appear in 2022. I'm liking the new Elvis Costello and may visit that one soon, and “Dodging...

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

Most of the time you have to dig to find the killer albums and artists that don’t casually cross your path on the radio, the internet, or...

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...

There are uncounted year-end best-of music lists out there – in print, online, on YouTube – any place music geeks talk about music. I...

Record production and supply chain issues aside, 2021 overall was a pretty great year for gathering music. This time, it's another...

I seem to have gotten into the habit of including one new release and one 2021 reissue in each of these posts. That wasn't an intentional...

Carrying on with a couple more of my favorites from this rapidly disappearing year. Despite being ignored by pretty much every media...