In my last blog I argued that bands such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) represented, within a rock context, the fundamental values of m...

A few days ago, in a blog entry on the relationship between psychedelic and progressive rock, I discussed The Nice, the British band from wh...

My friend JIM FIELDS sent me the link to this article in Slate , posted this past Friday, on Billy Joel. The article, by Ron Rosenbaum, is...

There’s no question that the introduction of the 12-inch LP (“long-playing” record) by Columbia in 1948 profoundly transformed music consump...

TIM LUCAS , editor of Video Watchdog and the authorial presence behind Videowatchblog , notified me a couple days ago that my blog had been...

Gram Parsons in Nudie suit © Jim McCrary 1969 All Rights Reserved.   Having spent the past couple of days reading Bob Proehl’s excellent...

Last time, in the context of writing about Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series of books on important rock albums of the past four decades, I brie...

This morning, David Barker, editor of Continuum’s 33 1/3 series of books on significant albums of the past forty years, posted the master li...

British pop star Dave Dee, born David Harman—who holds the distinction of having one of best whip cracks on record in pop music history—died...

A few days ago, in my post titled “Year One: Reflections,” I mentioned that my interpretations of pop songs such as “Judy In Disguise (With ...

1. Keith Richards drinks and smokes, Madonna works out—while the display of the body is central to rock culture, their bodies reveal distinc...

Ron Asheton, guitarist with The Stooges, has been found dead at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, according to this report ; he was 60 years ...