Ray Manzarek: The Key to the Doors
Sean MurphyWhen it comes to this great American band’s legacy, the best thing about the Doors...
The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde or, Art Improving Upon Life (Revisited)
ON THIS DAY On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were...
Wagner at 200 or, Get Your Götterdämmerung On
Or, If Loving Wagner is Wrong, I Don’t Want To Be Reich. (More on one...
Ray Manzarek, R.I.P.
I knew I’d have to deal with this one of these days. So many of...
Improving Upon Perfection, Part Five: Five Covers from The Black Keys
(Parts 1-4 of this series here, here, here, and here.) Before they became the Black...
This Week in Music: 1983
I don’t know what you were up to but I was partying like it was...
Pet Sounds: The Kind of World Where We Belong
5/16/66. A day that changed music, forever, for the better. A case could, and probably...
The Greatness of the Gatsby
Kathryn Schulz has seized the occasion of the newest—and probably not the last—screen adaptation of...
Ten Songs That Never Fail
With the emotional baggage associated with things like Mother’s Day and my birthday, it’s nice...
Every Time I Scribble A Thought With Artistic Intent
I’m fortunate, in a sense, to be the type of person that gets more sentimental...