A few days ago, over at the 33 1/3 blogspot , John Mark posted a link to an article about performance artist Genesis P-Orridge (second from...

Slightly over a week ago, in my February 1st entry , I observed that it is possible now to make a record simply by recombining fragments of ...

The local paper reported this morning that DEWEY MARTIN (second from left), the former drummer and singer for Buffalo Springfield, has died...

In literature classes in our high schools and colleges, the preferred method of study is hermeneutically driven and formally conservative: i...

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...