This 1946 film adaptation of the classic fairy tale by poet, director, painter Jean Cocteau is, in my opinion, a perfect movie. Th...

MV+EE’s Space Homestead is the best release so far this year. It’s got everything a psych freak like me needs and loves: cozy downhome mel...

        How does a band follow up a debut that has been pretty much universally acclaimed as a masterpiece? The “sophomore jinx” is a cl...

Before his untimely death in 2010 from cancer, Satoshi Kon was only the second name in Japanese animation, behind Hayao Miyazaki, who p...

There’s a scene in Portlandia where a mom stands up at a PTA meeting in the library of a fancy pre-school and demands better music in the...

I remember the first time I heard this album. My thought at that time was: “what the hell is this doing in the rock section?” I still ...

I first met the kid who would become my best friend in high school when we were on a chartered bus bound for a cross-country meet in Fort ...

George Harrison – Early Takes Volume 1 I loved the Martin Scorcese PBS special Living In The Material World and I assumed this was go...

The first thing you need to know about Desperate Teenage Lovedolls is that it’s a really bad movie. Horrible. The acting sucks. The plot...

Not long after I moved to Georgia I was out for lunch with a few of my new colleagues when the name Lester Maddox came up, and immediate...

It’s not fair to call Taj Mahal a blues artist. He is , but he’s so much more. For years I stayed away from him because I just wasn’t craz...

Charles Stewart (a.k.a.Chali2na) has had quite the career. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago he was inspired by the young, undergrou...

Movies about music and musicians are a dicey proposition at best. So many of them fall flat. I mean, how often have you watched one an...

     Last week we were pleased to host an in-store by chart-topping band Fun. But were just as pleased to find out that one of our attendees...

There's nothing quite like the vocal harmonies made by brothers and sisters. Something about their growing up together and sharing v...

I organize my record collection chronologically so I can keep in tune with the space-time continuum of music. It’s like they’re all part o...