In the history of rock music there have been several musicians whose mental illnesses have severely impaired their careers. Immediately one ...

Today is Michael Jackson’s birthday. Born in Gary, Indiana in 1958, he has turned 50 years old. The event has caused barely a ripple in the ...

In popular literature, song, poetry, and film, the femme fatale is a wicked, dangerous, irresistibly alluring woman who seduces and then le...

In the discourse about popular music, you’ll find that that the re-recorded version of a song previously recorded by an earlier artist is re...

In Tikaboo Valley, Nevada, the only significant landmark along a long, lonely stretch of Nevada’s Highway 375—officially named the “Extrater...

Slightly over three weeks ago I posted a blog entry on Time-Life's forthcoming The Ultimate Oldies But Goodies Collection , a large, 10...

Reverb is echo (the repetition of sound) produced by electronic means (such as that produced by the Fender ’65 Twin Reverb Amp, pictured). ...

According to answers.com, citing the Columbia Encyclopedia , obbligato is a musical term embodying a contradiction (an antilogy): (ŏbləgä...

Previously, in my entries of May 16 , May 31 , July 1 , and July 22 , I have discussed at length my experiment of trying to listen to all th...

For almost forty years, Jim Morrison—memorably christened by Lester Bangs as “Bozo Dionysus” in an article published in 1981—has remained a ...

As a follow-up to my earlier post on Isaac Hayes (and the earlier post on the wah-wah pedal), I thought I’d mention Film Score Monthly’s/Scr...

There are lots of songs about food, but I suspect that of this group a large number of them have to do with the chicken. “Anyone seeking an ...