Apropos of Nothing

Always fun to discover a new Warren Zevon clip; this one is from the Jools Holland BBC program, recorded circa 2000. Near the end, Warren p...

Back in the early 1980s, a band called Haircut One Hundred was quite the rage for a while. Their first album came out when I was a senior at...

Nike is all about marketing. Their products have never done much for me. Every single pair of Nike shoes I’ve owned have hurt my feet, so a...

A wonderful post by Rosanne Cash on her recent songwriting collaboration with Joe Henry. I've thought a lot about music in my 48 years,...

...such as it is. This is a commercial that Discovery Channel began showing recently. Though simple and somewhat corny, it's also really...

Right now my brain feels like one of those old "this is your brain on drugs" commercials, which explains why there has been little...

I thought it might be helpful to set some public goals for myself in terms of pieces I’d like to write in the next few months. So, for the ...

I have to admit that "Kitty's Back" was never a favorite of mine. That changed with Bruce's release of the 1975 Hammersmit...

You don't see him much in this video, but his organ was the driving force which took this song to previously unreached heights on the 19...

Danny Federici , the great organ player for the E Street Band, died today of melanoma at the age of 58. Sharing a stage with larger-than-lif...

Bruce Springsteen endorses Barack Obama . Dear Friends and Fans: Like most of you, I've been following the campaign and I have now seen ...

I have to say that last night’s show was the most excruciating episode of “American Idol” I’ ve seen. To be up front about it, I can’t stan...

From John Hawkins' 2008 Masters story in Golf World (Hat tip: Geoff Shackelford ): After years of dealing with disadvantages one could t...

Moby's new record, Last Night , is a concept album of sorts, attempting (in his words) to "take 25 years of going out in NYC and c...

"You have bad weeks and you have good weeks, and certainly this week was not one of my best," Woods said. Think about that for a m...