Apropos of Nothing

They may be silly love songs, but Sir Paul McCartney has always had a knack for writing great ones.  This is a song that I always felt des...

And trust me, it was hard to narrow it down to 6.  It's been the best six month stretch in quite a while, and I could easily have ...

This may be stretching the boundaries of "summer song" a bit, but bear with me. I tend to become a bit obsessive about songs....

My dad walks in after a day at work, and says "I just heard the craziest song on the radio...I think they were singing "Yummy y...

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the release of "Exile in Guyville," Liz Phair's pretty remarkable debut album.  So le...

Yesterday, I spent my lunch hour (actually, a little longer than that) as a guest on a new podcast that's just been started by Sacrament...

When Sheryl Crow began her career, I felt like the sky was the limit.  It was the same sort of feeling that one gets when watching an ext...

"What goes up, must come down." No doubt about it, one of the most recognizable opening lines in pop music history. More th...

Back in the days when Rolling Stone Magazine actually published negative music reviews, Dave Marsh - a longtime fan - just savaged "...

This will fall into one of two categories - "triumphant return," or "dumbest idea I ever had." But...ladies and ge...

But do you know what this feels like? To see one of your idols succeed at the expense of another? To see a team that deserved it so much los...

So Google Reader is going away on July 1.  It's aggravating, but for me it may be a blessing in disguise.  I logged on today, and ther...

So much for my repeatedly thwarted plans to stay connected to the blog. But in case anyone was wondering how I've been spending my t...

This isn't intended to discount his work with the Doors, which in many (if not most) instances is remarkable, but just to point out that...

If justice were to prevail, Patty Griffin would be a household name in the world of music, and her 2002 masterpiece "1000 Kisses...

I think I may have found a way to stay connected to the blog during this period at work where I'm writing thousands of words about the...