Lux Interior (born Erick Purkheiser, second from left), leader and voice of The Cramps, died yesterday from a heart ailment at the age of 62...

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson (“The Big Bopper”) died fifty years ago today in a plane crash that occurred just a few mi...

Yesterday, soon after posting my blog, “Post Rock,” I happened to read about Neil Young’s hilarious new single, “Fork in the Road,” in the l...

This article by Ann Powers in yesterday’s L. A. Times refers to the dwindling significance of rock music as a cultural force. She avers th...

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...