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...

The Rolling Stones, Hackney Diamonds (10/20) – When the announcement was made back in September that the Rolling Stones would be...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

• 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...

Some new discoveries, some old favorites. Here are the albums that got stuck on my personal playlist in May. No particular order, I just...

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...

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...

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

This post is a response to the late-2021 news about Eric Clapton being a giant wanker, sort of. The original story was that a woman...

What happens to the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World without Charlie Watts? I worry about such things. Mick, Keith, and Ronnie...