It has been four years since my last list of pop aphorisms. I thought it was high time for another. 1. The discovery of the teen idol wa...

For well over a century, music composers have allied themselves with engineers. For an example, consider German engineer Harald Bode, whose ...

The German inventor Emile Berliner patented the Gramophone in 1887. Unlike Thomas Edison, Berliner eschewed recording onto cylinders, and in...

My previous post on the role of stuttering in music reminded me of Dadaist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) and his “primitive” sonata (sound poe...

One of the reasons The Who’s “My Generation” is so memorable is, of course, because of Roger Daltrey’s distinctive delivery—his stuttering: ...

Trivia question: What was the first album in the history of rock to include the disclaimer, “This Record Was Made To Be Played Loud”? I cann...