Last week’s post about the musical “Hair” got me thinking about Laura Nyro, and thus the Album that Smelled. It’s not quite “Seven...

Forty-five years ago this month, I attended a revolutionary musical production in Madison, Wis. Okay, “Hair: The American Tribal...

One of my everyday reads is the Hemmings Daily, the online blog put out by the collector car magazine folks. A lot of the vehicles...

2016’s Bad Month for Makers of the Music has spilled over into February. Coming after the deaths of David Bowie and Glenn Frey earlier in...

I post this on the 57th anniversary of what some call the Day the Music Died. But what would The Music have been like if things had...

This business of writing Requiems for Rock Stars is getting depressingly familiar. Add Paul Kantner, founding member of the Jefferson...

I glimpsed, and heard, an important moment in rock and roll history this week. Or at least, someone’s vision of it. The occasion was a...

I hope I won’t be writing any more Requiems for Rockers for a while — especially when the Rockers are the same age as I — but coming on...

Rock and roll’s ultimate shape-shifter made his final transformation earlier this week. David Robert Jones died Monday, three days after...

This week, we detour from musing on The Music to reflecting on how we listen to it. I was never what such sound snobs would call an...