Electronic Music Laboratories, builder of the ElectroComp Synthesizer Model 101 (or just the EML synthesizer, pictured), started business in...

Back in March, I posted an entry on Art Laboe’s first Oldies But Goodies compilation, issued in the fall of 1959 on Laboe’s Original Sound...

According to Ronald Primeau, in his study of the literature of the American highway, Romance of the Road , the “American road genre”—popular...

Serendipitously, just a couple of minutes after posting today's blog entry, “Audio/Vison,” I checked my email to find that I’d received ...

Ambient music is generally defined as music in which the sounds are as equally important as the notes, its purpose being to invoke an “atmos...

Although initially invented in response to a request by trumpet player Clyde McCoy, who'd asked the Vox corporation for an electronic de...

“Border blasters” is the phrase broadcasters use to refer to the so-called “X stations”—Mexican radio stations—because the call letters of e...

The Mellotron, a keyboard instrument that was featured in early psychedelic music and later became an essential fixture of “Progressive” ban...

Previously, in my blog entries of May 16 , May 31 , and July 1 I have discussed my experiment of trying to listen to all the rock and R...

I suspect I’m like most people who, faced with a long road trip, grab a stack of CDs to take along with them in the car. (I've never ado...

The decades-old debate over the meaning of The Association’s first big hit, “Along Comes Mary,” is due to the basic slipperiness of its lyri...

Bent Sørensen of Aalberg University (Denmark) left a comment in connection with my blog entry yesterday on Susan Atkins. I encourage every...