Let’s just start with “Silver Lining.” This song has everything a punk rock song should have. It comes galloping out of the speakers...

For several days after I first saw Drugstore Cowboy I was high with fantasies about being a junkie. Which is weird because on the surface ...

When you say the three names of Ron Miles, Bill Frisell, and Brian Blade the ears of jazz fans are going to perk up. Bill Frisell has...

I had a great weekend last week. I went to Cleveland and saw The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. It is hard to describe what a powerful an...

Let's talk about this thing called "progressive rock" for a moment.  Like "alternative" and "jam band," i...

            The fourth Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers pairing is justifiably the most famous, because it’s their best. But today, in this age ...

The Epilogues have been called the hardest working band in Denver. They've played almost every venue in Denver and hav...

Some exercises in genre simply transcend the genres they are part of – such is the case with John Woo’s 1992 action-crime film Hard ...

In 1977, NASA launched a pair of LPs made of copper and gold into space. Both were attached to the Voyager I and II, a couple of spacecraf...

Now is a good time to talk about Hüsker Dü. Well, I think any time is a good time but they seem especially relevant these days, mayb...

I got an advance of Tempest and here are my immediate thoughts after one listen There’s no doubt it is modern Bob Dylan. The musi...

Normally we don’t review rock docs in this column. However Mad Dogs & Englishmen feels like cinema to me. It watches more like a m...

Rahsaan Roland Kirk was many things, but let’s clear one thing up first – he was a genius. There are those who would tell you that bec...

Steve Gunn is the best guitarist that no one has heard of. He’s not a blazing-guitar-solo great guitarist, though he’s such a master of th...

Cary Grant was the coolest, most suave dude to ever walk across the silver screen. It’s like he wasn’t even human, he was so perfect...