2011: Time To Die (Part One: January-June)
Sean Murphy2011: In pace requiescat! The new year kicked off with unfortunate news when word of...
The Top 10 Albums of 2011, According To Me (Part Four)
1. PJ Harvey, Let England Shake “You cannot get the news from poems”, William Carlos...
The Top 10 Albums of 2011, According To Me (Part Three)
2. Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues Fleet Foxes were a welcome and justly celebrated mainstream breakout...
Sam Rivers, R.I.P.
Another irreplaceable giant has left the planet. Sam Rivers, always graceful, elegant and cool as...
The Top 10 Albums of 2011, According To Me (Part Two)
5. New Zion Trio, Fight Against Babylon. The full review is here. Zelig-like, Jamie...
The Narrow Path: A Tone Poem*
You are alone. You are back in the city and you are alone as...
My Kind of Christmas Music (Revisited)
Tchaikovsky Corelli Bach John Fahey The Who Chuck Berry a three-fer from Jethro Tull! Sonny...
The Top 10 Albums of 2011, According To Me (Part One)
A couple of quick things. In fairness, both Tom Waits and Paul Simon could easily...
Five Songs From 2011
Here are five songs from albums that did not make my personal Top 10 for...
Vaclav Havel, R.I.P.
This representative quote has been reprinted many times elsewhere, with good reason, so I have...