I discovered T. Rex about ten years ago when a friend loaned me 20 th Century Boy: The Ultimate Collection . Turned off initially by th...

Yesterday was one of those days when so many good things happen that you just wait for a tap on the shoulder. It never came. It started with...

This is the first film that brought Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar on to the radar of a larger American audience, and it’s no surprise t...

When I got there at  8:30 a.m.  there were about 120 people in line. The first guy had apparently gotten there at  3:00 a.m.  By the time w...

This is a story about New Orleans: an amazing, singular, misunderstood city. There are a number of factors that make it a great city; the f...

I recently bowed to the pressure of well-meaning movie fans and tried to watch Pixar’s latest blockbuster Despicable Me . I thought the v...

While I like the self-titled Traffic album the best, John Barleycorn Must Die is a close second. With the loss of Dave Mason, the now th...

Way back in the summer of 2000, I heard advance word of a new Yo La Tengo album and I was worried.  I should have been excited that one o...

By this point in his career, Luis Buñuel had earned the license to range far and wide in his films and basically do whatever he wanted. So...

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"God appears in many forms to those who believe in Him.  Thousands of Negros in the Deep South visualize God and Heaven in terms of...

Bob Marley is a complicated figure. For millions of people who experienced him and his powerful, uplifting music during his lifetime he rem...

After the in-store at Twist & Shout, Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses greeted another packed house at the Ogden where their performance ...

When one of my employees came in and said “There’s a bunch of cars in the lot with Wyoming license plates” I knew something was up. Usually ...

There are very few bands that have such a history at Twist and Shout. We have literally been with them since day one. And what an exhilarati...