Apropos of Nothing

A long time ago - I first remember seeing it in his 1970s music overview in the Village Voice Pazz 'n Jop Poll, way back in 1979 - Rob...

Watching “Midnight in Paris” made me realize how long it’s been since I’ve seen a Woody Allen movie.  But it shocked even me to see that it...

We saw “A Single Man” a few months ago, but I forgot to write about it until now.  There are two things about the film that are memorable ...

I don't know how I missed this one, since it's been the premier record store in downtown Sacramento for nearly 30 years now - The Be...

In honor of record store day, I'm going to try and recite from memory every record store that I've frequented in the course of my 52...

I guess it’s just one of those weeks. Levon Helm was one of the great American drummers, as well as one of the great vocalists of his era. ...

If you don’t have a good Dick Clark memory, then you missed out on one of the great American institutions. No, he wasn’t groundbreaking lik...

I used some birthday money to buy a whole passel of new albums over the weekend, and was pleasantly surprised to see that Counting Crows - w...

The view from my hotel room in San Diego, where I'm at this week for the annual conference of the Association that I work for. This was...

Just another band from East L.A., my ass. Los Lobos has been playing together now for more than 30 years, and the end isn't even close t...

We can all get annoyed with the cloying music, the levels of pretension, the "tradition unlike any other" nonsense. Yet, year in ...

Happy Easter!

There hasn’t been a lot of posting here lately, for a number of reasons including sickness, being busy at work, and sometimes being just pla...