An old adage warns never judge a book by its cover. What about an album cover? Music critic Michael Jarrett observes, “[album] covers n...

You don’t walk through life anymore. You run. You dance. You drive a car. You take a plane, not a train. Clothes must be able to move too...

Nancy Sinatra’s and Lee Hazlewood’s successful duets can be understood by yet another analogy to filmmaking. Greta Garbo made twenty-four...

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood (1929-2007) are to pop music what Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg are to the cinema: two differe...

I have been reading Judith Freeman’s excellent book, The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved (Pantheon, 2007). I w...

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...