For You Blue: Remembering The Beatles’ “Blue Album”
Sean MurphyLet us not forget, it’s the “Blue Album”. Before it was the cassette, the eight-track, CD or digital download, it was a record, played on things called record players. And…
There’s Just A Meanness In This World
As obstreperously opposed to the death penalty as I remain, it is nevertheless difficult to feel uncomplicated emotions regarding the execution of John Allen Muhammad. I --and any individual living…
Ten Songs To Celebrate The Fall of the Wall
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, 1st Movement Grant Green, “Exodus” Rahsaan Roland Kirk, “Balm in Gilead” John Coltrane, “Psalm” Philip Glass, “String Quartet No. 5” Jimi Hendrix, “Beginnings” Bob…
Markos Moulitsas KO’S Tom Tancredo: Instant Classic
Anyone who knows anything knows Tom Tancredo is a clown. A typical bullying, blustery blowhard, the prototypical GOP platform-parroting buffoon. He is also, naturally, a chickenhawk, and he just got…
Happy Birthday, Sesame Street
Sesame Street turns 40! Wow. USA Today has a nice piece celebrating the show. I could (and probably should) spend all day looking at old clips. Here are a handful that…
The Messiah Will Come Again
No, not that Messiah. This Messiah: Actually, that's not true. We won't see Roy Buchanan again, since he left us back in 1988. Yet another unspeakably distressing musician suicide. Or was…
Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1
This is a difficult review to write, knowing that the folks who follow Henry Threadgill are likely already aware of (or in possession of) this new release—his first in eight…
Wherein Lawrence O’Donnell Obliterates the Despicable Liz Cheney
Children are supposed to aim high and pick up where their parents left off, moving the ball farther down the field, or finding new ways to contribute to society, or…
Freddy Krueger for President!
Think that's scary? You want to know what's really scary? The fact that our beloved Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), in the midst of discussing some things that scare him, has…