Apropos of Nothing

Right about now, Adam Silver has got to be wondering what he did to deserve this.  The NBA is in the midst of the greatest 1st round of play...

Listening to this record feels like falling into a time warp.  To call it spare in its sound hardly does it justice; it's practically ...

I think I've finally figured out where to place Drive-By Truckers in my personal music pantheon.  DBT is a band that in this century, ...

Once upon a time, Boz Scaggs recorded a song called "Loan Me a Dime" that featured a young, mostly unknown guitar player named D...

There are memories associated with "Boston" that are so engrained in my mind that when I hear the songs in question, a sense of ...

This will come as no surprise to even the most casual baseball fan - when the Yankees play the Red Sox, prepare yourself for a long evenin...

Even though I always enjoy rooting for Bubba Watson, there's no arguing the fact that the final round of The Masters was about as much...

Over the years I've come close to buying Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on CD, but never pulled the trigger until now, wi...

I failed to fully appreciate "I Just Can't Stop It" when it was released in the late spring of 1980.  Then, the song that st...

Prince first hit the airwaves in 1979, with his radio-friendly hit "I Wanna Be Your Lover."  It sounded great then (as it does n...

This is the view of the State Capitol from the windows of the conference room at my office.  I rarely write about work on this blog, mostl...

And so begins another series, this time focusing on an album that I own only on vinyl, in the long-playing 33 RPM format. We start with ...

It's not likely that I'll ever return to weekly viewing of American Idol, but with this year's judging crew, you can at least sa...

We became subscribers of HBO for the first time in December, when Comcast offered us a complimentary six-month subscription to make up for...

Browsing through the Metacritic reviews of English Oceans , the new album by the Drive-By Truckers, it becomes quickly apparent that near...

Nothing we saw in February came even close to the quality of "True Detective," but that's a pretty high standard. Ender'...