Apropos of Nothing

  Michael Connelly has been writing books featuring Harry Bosch for more than three decades now, so it's not surprising that the old det...

The news that Scott Kempner - guitarist, songwriter, and co-lead vocalist of the Del-Lords - had died last November, after having been diagn...

In 1993, Slash Records released a Los Lobos anthology album with the title, "Just Another Band from East L.A."  While accurate as ...

  The "resurrection walk" referred to in the title of Michael Connelly's 38th (!) novel is a reference to the moment at which ...

The second in a series begun by my online friend Larry, where double albums are winnowed down to one strong, two-sided album. October 1980 -...

Prelude - 1992 Remember the early days of the Internet?  I can't pinpoint the exact day when the Internet became a reality for me, but i...

A couple of years ago, I was accepted into a Facebook Group called “Village Voice Pazz & Jop Rip-Off Poll,” which for someone like me – ...

It's been a long time since I've gone down the Duke Ellington rabbit hole.  Last week, what sent me down was a tweet (a retweet, act...

  The first political science course I took in college (at American River College, here in the Sacramento area) was taught by a gentleman wh...

 Not a bad year at all. Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi - They're Calling Me Hom...

Jackson Browne earned his spot in the Hall of Fame a long time ago, so it's OK that his late-career albums fall short of the standards h...

There is a LOT going on in "Hard Drive."  It's got a definite Laurie Anderson feel to it, almost as if it were a lost track fr...

The music that Rhiannon Giddens has made on her last two albums with Francesco Turrisi cuts like a scythe, slashing through fields of grain....

Over the next few days, in preparation for posting my Top Ten Albums of 2021, I'll be posting some of my favorite songs of the year from...

And that bad boy in the middle now holds the place of honor previously occupied by the Technics Receiver. So yeah, I no longer have the abil...

  This bad boy served me well for close to 40 years, but it was well past the time to say farewell.  Little did I know that the frustrating ...