I received an email last night informing me that the Danny Elfman and Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box Set has been delayed (again), wi...

Once, long ago, two days after the Ides, on February 15, there took place in Rome a mysterious ritual called the Lupercalia, one of the many...

In yet another development regarding the ongoing search for John Lennon's white 1965 Rolls Royce Phantom V (see the previous and related...

Frequent guest blogger Eric Roberts has assembled a short informational clip featuring images of the 1965 Rolls Royce Phantom V once owned b...

Yardbird is a slang word for the chicken, usually after having been prepared as a meal. Apparently jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker loved fr...

There's hip , and then there's corn , what Louis Armstrong in his autobiography, Swing That Music (1936), calls "corney."...

There is no general agreement on what constitutes a "standard," although the existence of the standard requires, implicitly, a dis...

It goes without saying that certain rock stars have the same mysterious allure as movie stars. One lesson these rock stars learned from movi...

For well over a century, music composers have allied themselves with engineers. For an example, consider German engineer Harald Bode, whose ...

In the second of two parts, guest blogger Eric Roberts continues his summary of the search for the whereabouts of John Lennon's White R...

Guest blogger Eric Roberts provides a summary of the search for the whereabouts of John Lennon's White Rolls Royce (EUC 100C) that has t...

This past week I happened to see two movies from different decades and noticed that the electronic novelty, the SONOVOX , serendipitously ap...