If I Could Wave My Magic Wand…(Revisited)
Sean MurphyIt was twenty years ago today... No, seriously. Twenty years. Fall semester (because the world was still measured in summers and semesters), sophomore year. Out of all the indelible memories…
Lighting The Night: For Herbie, My Brother and Someone You Love (Revisited)
First of all, just stop and listen to this: Maybe you're hearing that for the first time and thinking, like I did about a decade or so when I was…
We’ll Always Have Pedro…
Yes, that hurt. I mean, I shelled out the necessary cabbage to get the MLB ticket so I could catch as many Red Sox games as I desired. How could I…
Preparing for the High Holidays with Pitom
This is pretty cool. Pitom, a band I've raved about at length here and here, has released a new single (and video) in honor of Yom Kippur. The song…
Hicks Keeps it Real
ON THIS DAY On Sept. 27, 1964, the Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
Ranking R.E.M.
Out of respect for the post-Bill Berry content, we won't need to damn the last five efforts with faint praise. Instead, I'll settle on the Top 10, which happen to…
R.E.M.: The Greatest American Band. Ever.
Almost exactly three years ago I tried to settle a question many people had asked me (and that I had asked myself): what is the all-time great American band? The…
Trey Spruance, Super Genius
I used to believe it was one of the minor musical tragedies of the last quarter-century that the great Mr. Bungle could not keep it together. Three spectacular albums (each…
September 18, 1970: God is (still) Not Dead
We lost three big J's, all in just about a year (Janis, Jimi and Jim Morrison). Debates could --and should-- rage about how much Janis and Jim could --and would--…
The Catholic Church is (still) Decadent and Depraved
Follow the money. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. These are the two oft-invoked quotes I kept thinking to myself as I read Sabrina Rubin Erdley's piece, "The…