It took several run-ins with the song before my brain started firing off alert messages to my hand, commanding it to reach for the volume knob in ...

 I was never a huge fan of The White Stripes, but my wife loves them and she has impeccable taste in music, so thanks to my better-half over time...

Cold Pumas is a horrible name for a band, or at least a distracting one. Is it slang for a really nice pair of Puma sneakers, or is it meant to li...

It was 2002 when I first saw the video for “Wake Up” from the debut album by The Walkmen titled Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone. I w...

Frankie Rose by any other name would sound as sweet. At times she’s been called “A member of the Vivian Girls,” at others “The drummer for the...

My earliest awareness of the iconic Frank Sinatra came from watching classic Looney Tunes cartoons from the early 40’s. In those cartoons Sinatra wa...

October 18th is always a special day of the year for me as a result of it being my wife’s birthday. This year it got a little extra dose of special ...

I recently did some perusing at the museum of commodified nostalgia, otherwise known as Urban Outfitters, and had a familiar feeling. Whenever I go to...

Brian Johnson has been a regular visitor around here for some time and his comments have always been extremely thoughtful and well-written. We could t...