Bill Buckner, Mookie Wilson and Me
Sean MurphyI’ve never been able to appreciate the aesthetic perfection (that is to say, the perfection...
Happy Halloween: Black Sabbath Style
This is (Black) Magic. Sabbath in ’70, live. I’ve had plenty to say about Sabbath...
Drag the Dream Into Existence: Reassessing Rush’s Masterpiece
Moving Pictures, Thirty Years On Every band, if they are lucky, is able to create...
Pharoah Sanders: Village of the Pharoahs/Wisdom Through Music
Raise your hand if you’ve been holding out hope that more of Pharoah Sanders’ early...
Got Floyd?
So…you may have heard that the Pink Floyd discography (all 14 albums, pictured above) is getting...
Keeping Hope Alive (Updated!)
10/17/11: Return of Mazzy? Apparently, it’s true. (h/t to the man who surfs the ‘net...
The Michael Giles Mad Band: In the Moment
Let’s say you’re a drummer and you happened to play on two of the seminal...
John Zorn: Magister Artium Gandensis 2011
I’ve written a great deal about John Zorn (in some detail here and here, and his...
On Worrying*
Two things we all became experts in during those last five years: taking care of...
R.I.P., Steve Jobs
While I’m congenitally disinclined to join the choruses of hagiographers anointing this outstanding marketer, salesman...