Apropos of Nothing

If you sit down and think about the albums that came out in 1981, "The Blasters" is probably not going to be one that comes imme...

Around the time that Prince was rewriting the history of rock 'n roll in Minneapolis, there was another band from that town doing ...

The greatness of "Purple Rain" was evident upon the very first listen.  Prince had made some excellent albums before its release...

Near the end of “The Big Chill,” Jeff Goldblum is sitting and talking with Glenn Close and accurately observing something along the lines...

I’m sure that I’m not alone in this, but nearly all the music I’ve listened to (or even wanted to listen to) since the news of his death ...

"If anybody asks you, you belong to Prince." "Controversy" was the first Prince album that I obsessed over...or I sh...

In 1995, Prince released an album called "The Gold Experience." More than a decade removed from "Purple Rain," the alb...

When I was lucky enough to be invited by Jack Gallagher a couple of years ago to appear on his 5 Songs podcast, I tried to articulate my ...

You're probably going to have trouble finding someone who thinks that "It's Only Rock'n Roll" is the best Stones al...

One of my Christmas presents in 1974 was an AM/FM clock radio, on which I began my slow transition from listening almost exclusively to AM...

27:33.  That's how long the album is. Story #1:  This was another birthday present; what I really liked at the time was "Hey Ju...

Rank and File was a relatively short-lived band from the early 1980s that fell into the “country punk” genre, of which I’m guessing there...

A few years back, I put together a list of what I thought were the best 50 albums of all time, and then started writing a short essay on e...

I bought this album on the strength of the cover alone. On the cover photo, the boys in the band look more than a little silly – on th...

As Simon Frith noted in his Rolling Stone review of the album, six musicians were credited on the back cover of “Siren,” while eight ...

At some point around the time of this year's appearance by Nile Rodgers at this year's Grammy Awards - I can't remember if it ...