In theory, rock ‘n’ roll is an egalitarian artform, having derived from an ideology of amateurism (as opposed to professionalism). Because o...

As if in response to the massive media campaign that has geared up to promote U2’s latest album, NO LINE ON THE HORIZON , Andrew Gumbel has ...

In my and Rebecca’s book, Donald Cammell: A Life on the Wild Side (FAB Press, 2006), we discussed Donald Cammell’s proposed film of Vladimi...

Happily, Diarmid Cammell’s good friend, Carol Staswick, wrote to me last night in regard to my recent post on my memories of Diarmid, supply...

Today I received the incomparably sad news that Donald Cammell’s youngest brother, Diarmid Cammell, died this past Friday, February 27, at t...

As a form of popular music, 1950s doo-wop was characterized by its playful use of nonsense syllables (take, for instance, the hyphenate “doo...

I am saddened by today's news, as reported by IndieWIRE, that the decades-old distributor of European and arthouse cinema in North Ameri...

1. Record Collecting —A pseudo-scientific activity motivated by the same obsessive narrowness of focus that characterizes the autistic mi...

According to John Tobler’s This Day In Rock (Carroll & Graf, 1993), on this day in 1977, Fleetwood Mac released one of the biggest-sell...

Frequent visitors to this blog know that I submitted a proposal, on Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night , to Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series of ...

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 ...