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...

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...

These are the 2022 releases that couldn’t be moved. They stuck like glue to my personal playlist when they first dropped, and stayed...

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...

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...

• 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...

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...

• 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...

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...