Imagine a time long ago, before Crawdaddy or Creem or Rolling Stone or Pitchfork , when nobody needed critics, when there were no Beat...

Premise: Echo is to exteriority as reverberation is to interiority. As Michael Jarrett observes: “Reverb sonically implies the size and s...

“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl y...

Guest blogger Eric Roberts reports PART ONE THE DREAM LIVES ON Above : EUC 100C as it appeared recently at the 2016 Rolls-Royce En...

EUC 100C – John Lennon's "Lost" White 1965 Phantom V Comes Out Of Hiding To Receive Honors From The International Rolls-Royc...

Making a list was a Victorian-era parlor game, a way to fill the empty hours, a way to ward off boredom. As I’ve discussed before, there i...

Frank with his daughter Francesca It grieves me to report the sad news that my friend Frank Mazzola, who became one of the most influent...

Note: This blog is an amalgam of observations I've made previously, with a few additional remarks added. It seemed appropriate to (re)...

Actress Tilda Swinton According to the Wiktionary , the term xanthocroi was introduced by biologist  T. H. Huxley, from the ancient Gr...

Tara Murtha’s contribution to Bloomsbury Academic’s 33 1/3 series on classic albums, Ode to Billie Joe , is something of a sleight of hand...

Five years ago, in December 2009, I posted a blog, The Importance of the Name , on Hard Meat, a British trio that released two albums on ...