On this Earth Day, what more appropriate topic than the Whole Earth Catalog ? The Whole Earth Catalog was a thick, oversized paperback larg...

The Rolling Stones' album Black and Blue (1976), a minor record in the Stones' vast oeuvre and the first made after the departure ...

According to This Day In Rock , on 15 April 1955 CBS talent scout Arthur Godfrey turned down the chance to sign Elvis Presley. However, acco...

I haven't yet had the time to explore thoroughly all of the contents included in The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Musi...

I'd never noticed the similarity before, but last night while watching the new Blu-ray release of Soylent Green (1973), I realized how ...

Both music and perception are psychophysiological processes (psychophysiology studies the relationship between physiological processes and t...

Below I present the full text of a statement given to a student reporter who is working on an article on the "sexual revolution" o...

In his Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1985), Italo Calvino suggests that “melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness,” just as “...

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...