12/12/12: 12 Songs for the Apocalypse
Sean MurphyIt's not the end of the world, and I feel fine. But if it was, I would want all these songs to accompany me as we spiraled down the metaphysical…
Sam Cooke: Remembering The Master
Can we talk about Sam Cooke? Murdered on this day, two years shy of a half-century ago. Ouch. It still hurts. He, along with Otis Redding (AKA The King), are…
Why Not Pink Floyd? (Revisited)
The Pink Floyd Discovery Studio Album Box Set I. See Saw I have recently listened to every single song from every single Pink Floyd album, so you don’t have to.…
File Under: Man’s Inhumanity to Man
This hurts my heart and devastates my soul. It makes me furious and leaves me deeply distressed. And with a helplessness that at once causes me to question my belief in…
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: None More Prog
If the images above do not immediately register and make you laugh (or at least cringe), you must not be properly acquainted with ELP in general and Tarkus in particular.…
Dave Brubeck, R.I.P.
Another great one goes away. (Read THIS.) We knew he wouldn't live forever, but damned if he didn't try. 91 years old. The first jazz musician to move a million…
All That Glitters is Golden God: Led Zeppelin & The Kennedy Center Award
In case you just jetted in from another planet, a moderately successful band called Led Zeppelin received the Kennedy Center treatment this weekend (more on that HERE). I don't think…
Some “Spiritual Jazz” To Kick off December
While assessing my favorite albums from 2010, HERE, I gave top nod to Lloyd Miller's awesome collaboration with The Heliocentrics. My full review of their self-titled disc can be found HERE. A taste: Lloyd Miller…
Thriller at Thirty
November 30, 1982. That is the date it dropped, and it's quite safe to say the world literally had no idea what was about to hit it upside it's head.…
Technology and Entertainment: The Evolution of Audio, Part Four
Build It and They Will Come If it is true that history tends to be written by the winners, it is also a fact that the most successful ideas, in…