I may have missed it, but Bill Wyman’s website made no mention of his birthday yesterday—his 72nd. The former Rolling Stone didn’t acknowle...

I went ahead and posted nine more aphorisms today, so as to make the number I’ve posted on this blog at this point total an even 70. Several...

1. Concerts once were performed for the purpose of being recorded, but now concerts occur for the purpose of promoting a record. 2. There’s ...

I learned today that Neal Hefti, former big band trumpeter, arranger, and composer who worked with that era's illustrious band leaders s...

1. An old adage advises not to judge a book by its cover; it is therefore the height of folly to judge an album’s greatness by the album cov...

Glenn Gould scandalized the classical music community in the 1960s when he acknowledged that the recordings on his LPs were spliced together...

1. “The Top 500 Albums of All Time”—another name for the outcome of a questionnaire, a device derived from a nineteenth-century parlor game....

1. Marx revised Hegel by averring all great historic personages appear twice, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. When appl...

1. To lift a phrase from Brecht, it is the special dignity of rock—entertainment—that makes it so very difficult to be a rock critic: the fu...

A few days ago, Livedaily.com posted an article indicating that the inimitable Van Morrison scheduled in early November two evening concert...

I read in the paper this morning that Nick Reynolds (on the right in the photo), founding member of the Kingston Trio, died Wednesday in San...

1. The Kingsmen’s “Louie, Louie,” not Bob Dylan, taught rock musicians a fundamental lesson in writing lyrics: the best are highly ambiguous...