Happy Birthday Chazz: Mingus at 92
Sean MurphyToday would have been (and, still is) Charles Mingus’s 92nd birthday. I’ve written about him...
Mark Twain: The Big Daddy of American Letters (Revisited)
On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in...
Down With The King: Wherein the Mysteries of Easter are Contemplated (Revisited)
Right. So what’s scarier: a grown man dressed in a bunny costume, an actual adult-sized...
Read This
Whatever your feelings and opinions regarding minimum wage in the United States, you owe it...
Five Songs for Tax Day
Happy Tax Day! The Beatles: Pink Floyd: Jethro Tull: Jimi Hendrix: Spinal Tap:
Celebrating Herbie Hancock, Again…
First and foremost: Thank you, universe, for giving us the gift of Herbie Hancock 74...
Giving it up for the Hottest Band in the World…KISS!
A proper tribute to the hottest band in the world has been on my to-do...
Arthur Smith, R.I.P.
Farewell to the man whose licks launched a thousand imitators. You know you’ve done your...
Robert E. Simon, 100 Years Young
Robert E. Simon, the man who named the town I live in (R.E.S.ton, get it?)...
For You Blue: The Beatles’ ‘Blue Album’, 41 Years Later
It was forty-one years ago, today. No, really. Check it out: Let us not forget,...