Goodbye and Good Riddance, Joe Lieberman
Sean MurphyWaaay back in November 2008 I put my feelings about Joe Lieberman on the permanent record. In a post entitled File Under: Teflon Joe (formerly filed under: Are You Fucking…
12/12/12: 12 Songs for the Apocalypse
It's not the end of the world, and I feel fine. But if it was, I would want all these songs to accompany me as we spiraled down the metaphysical…
Sam Cooke: Remembering The Master
Can we talk about Sam Cooke? Murdered on this day, two years shy of a half-century ago. Ouch. It still hurts. He, along with Otis Redding (AKA The King), are…
Why Not Pink Floyd? (Revisited)
The Pink Floyd Discovery Studio Album Box Set I. See Saw I have recently listened to every single song from every single Pink Floyd album, so you don’t have to.…
File Under: Man’s Inhumanity to Man
This hurts my heart and devastates my soul. It makes me furious and leaves me deeply distressed. And with a helplessness that at once causes me to question my belief in…
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: None More Prog
If the images above do not immediately register and make you laugh (or at least cringe), you must not be properly acquainted with ELP in general and Tarkus in particular.…
Just Say No or, What We Talk About When We Talk About Sex (In Fiction): Revisited
Lying in bed, thinking about geometry. Like: how my arm next to her ass makes a right angle, or how her legs in either direction form an isosceles triangle (or…
Dave Brubeck, R.I.P.
Another great one goes away. (Read THIS.) We knew he wouldn't live forever, but damned if he didn't try. 91 years old. The first jazz musician to move a million…
All That Glitters is Golden God: Led Zeppelin & The Kennedy Center Award
In case you just jetted in from another planet, a moderately successful band called Led Zeppelin received the Kennedy Center treatment this weekend (more on that HERE). I don't think…
Some “Spiritual Jazz” To Kick off December
While assessing my favorite albums from 2010, HERE, I gave top nod to Lloyd Miller's awesome collaboration with The Heliocentrics. My full review of their self-titled disc can be found HERE. A taste: Lloyd Miller…