I am so uncertain as to whether there are any songs about e-mails that I am not going to look. Any complaints about that, send me a S.A.E. f...

purchase [ Pretzel Logic ] It's no surprise that the first page or more of a Google search about "mail to yourself" is...

R.B. Greaves : Take A Letter Maria   [ purchase ]  I’ve written in the past about how I started paying attention to music in 1969. as a resu...

 This could go either way. My occasional forays into musics outside the SMM staples of vocals/guitar/bass/drums seldom capture many glimpses...

Letters to Cleo : Here and Now   [ purchase Aurora Glory Alice ]  This theme was inspired by the attempt by the Trump administration to dama...

purchase [ LRB Playing to Win album ] A trip to Australia is on my bucket list, for sure. Given my experience with my yearly trip to s...

There are few more rousing introductions to any piece of rhythmic music than the exhortation to the band of a swift entry count, the musical...

Human Sexual Response : 12345678910   [ purchase ]  Did I ever see Human Sexual Response live? Did I interview them at WPRB? I have no mem...

  Purchase: You Can't Count on Me, by the Counting Crows A dual threat here: A warning that you can't count on me, by a band that ha...

Well there are a lot of those in the music biz, I thought, on a first mistaken hearing of the title of this piece. Maybe one, then, for anot...

My last post , about the TV show The Great has, so far, turned out to be one of the least popular things that I’ve ever submitted to this ...

Is there a more chilling song in the the already well-refrigerated canon of Richard Thompson? No stranger to a bleak lyric, this song, fr...

purchase [ Newman's Bad Love album] When I was a kid, my folks picked up a couple of Tom Lehrer albums for family entertainment...

[ stream on Hulu ]  I watch a lot of TV in general, but the end of almost all outside the home entertainment and, until recently, televis...

So much of what is deemed is great just grates. At least to my ears. I have always had a taste eccentric to the vox populi, preferring and t...

Purchase LCD Soundsystem's "Someone Great" from the 2007 full-length  Sound of Silver In life--in our understanding of truths,...

purchase [ Platters version ] purchase [ The Band version ] purchase [ Freddy Mercury version ] There are many notable version of ...

Gang of Four : Not Great Men [ purchase ] There’s an old theory of history called the “Great Man” theory, which, not surprisingly, loo...