Joe Frazier, R.I.P.
Sean MurphyIn typical 21st Century American fashion, the sad news of Joe Frazier’s passing was quickly...
Huntsman is…Hip?
Hard to quibble with this: Huntsman: I’d have...
The David Lynch Dilemma (Revisited)
With the 25th anniversary edition of the seminal/infamous/underwhelming Blue Velvet being released this week, it seems...
Charlie Pierce and the anesthetized fairy tales of reasonable men
That sound you hear is the joyful noise of Charlie Pierce’s rhetorical 4-wood going upside...
Introducing Aram Bajakian
My review of Aram Bajakian’s remarkable debut Aram Bajakian’s Kef dropped yesterday at Popmatters. (check it...
Aram Bajakian: Aram Bajakian’s Kef
Aram Bajakian’s Fractured Folk Tales You need to spend some time with this music. Fortunately,...
Bill Buckner, Mookie Wilson and Me
I’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...