Apropos of Nothing

It takes about 45 seconds to hit high gear, but once the hook kicks in, you can't let it go.  Probably the best song to come out of t...

After his second album, which was almost certainly too much of a not-always-good thing, I'd begun to grow tired of Father John Misty....

"Number one is the voice.  That's what people respond to the most, the singer is everything." - Dave Cobb Dave Cobb is a...

In his 1980 Pazz & Jop essay, Robert Christgau quoted a critic by the name of Jay Mitchell, who described Side Two of Stevie Wonder...

The only person I know who owns more Christmas albums than I do is my brother.  It's about all I listen to between Thanksgiving and Ch...

My feelings about this album are mixed.  On the one hand, I'm very happy for Musgraves' success, and happy that she is breaking th...

I'm not sure it makes sense to call it the "Holy Grail" because you could find recorded versions of the show if you knew whe...

The Winner, and New Champion Not long ago, I was looking for something in the blog archives and stumbled across this pos t, about my Top...

In one of "Annihilation's" early scenes, Natalie Portman is painting the bedroom where she and her husband Kane slept.  It...

And last but not least, a list that will hopefully be longer this year - the books I read in 2017: Altamont - Joel Selvin The Power of t...

Housekeeping post #2 - the movies I saw in the theater in 2017: Thor: Ragnarok The Shape of Water Star Wars - The Last Jedi The Florid...

This is strictly a housekeeping post, but I like to memorialize for the record the music, films and books that I've enjoyed in the cours...

As far as Super Bowls go: it was the best of times; it was the worst of times. The best of times: Were you not entertained?   It's...

Almost forgot to close this thing out!  Aside from King Kendrick, Jason Isbell made my favorite album of 2017, the first time to these ear...

Like most of the music-listening world, the digital age has changed the way that I listen to music.  I still buy CDs and rip them onto my ...

Scroll down a bit and you'll find what I wrote about the two albums Chris Stapleton released in 2017.  They were both outstanding, an...