Apropos of Nothing

As I've written before, October is the best month of the year for avid sports fans.  You've got the heart of the college football ...

"Trust me, I play great female records and we've got some right now; they're just not the lettuce in our salad.  The lettuce ...

The tale of the tape: In one corner, Graham Parker and the Rumour's "Squeezing Out Sparks," the 1979 Pazz & Jop cham...

In the "he coulda been a contender" department: I'm not really sure why Marshall Crenshaw didn't become a star.  He ha...

When this was released in 1982, I thought it was the most disappointing of his 6 albums (not counting the mostly failed country experiment...

We're six months into the year, and I can already see that it's going to be really hard to come up with a year-end Top 10.  I'...

And here is where begin to catch up on a bunch of things that would have been more interesting if I'd written about them as they were ...

Three or four times a year, I make compilation CDs for my friends and colleagues, covering either the latest releases or in the case of th...

[Spoilers] When you watch "Game of Thrones," you know that you're in for your fair share of violence.  In the first season, ...

With a little over a week and 8 more shows to go,  I guess it's finally time to come to grips with the fact that we're about to se...

"To me, the album is perfect for right now.  If the world was happy, we'd give you a happy album.  But right now, we are not happ...

The life of Leonard Nimoy strikes me as the very epitome of a life well lived.  Over the course of an acting career that spanned decades, ...

Sleater-Kinney's legendary status in the world of rock 'n roll was secure well before the release of "No Cities to Love,...

This morning's Seattle Times website. Well, I'm not sure if the adage quite applies, but no doubt you've all heard the sayin...

I would have made a different prediction after the Conference Championship games two weeks ago, but after two weeks of suffering through the...

Last, but not least, the documentation of 2014 ends with the list of movies seen at the theater. Top Five (12/29/14) The Hobbit: The Batt...