Since Joanna Newsom released her debut album The Milk-Eyed Mender in the spring of 2004, she has become a highly divisive figure in popul...

Sean Penn is a great actor. A lot of people don’t think he’s a great person, but I don’t care about that. In the early 80s, while the acto...

Maybe you’ve heard (or at least heard of) Cincinnati’s best rock band Wussy but, unfortunately, you probably haven’t. They’ve avoided tang...

In 1991, Tarsem directed the most popular and acclaimed music video of its era, R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion,” and helped catapult the ban...

 This CD (originally released in 1996) contains the entire original recorded output of John Hurt, who, after recording these sessions (most...

John Huston’s 1975 adventure tale almost defies description. It so filled with important themes (power corrupts absolutely, British imperi...

Ween released Quebec in August of 2003, when I first worked at Manifest Discs & Tapes in Greenville, South Carolina. At that time, Ma...

Doug 2 (talking on the phone with Doug 1) “Who the hell is this?” Doug 1 “It’s me, it’s you know, it’s you, it’s us. You know who it is”...

Have you heard of Amy Rigby? If so, you’re in a rare 1% - probably less, actually - of discerning rock music listeners of the late 1990s. ...

In 1974, director Tobe Hooper released The Texas Chain Saw Massacre , a nightmarish and intense horror film about a family of murderous ca...

Three things to talk about here; the phenomenon of jazz/rock, the specific jazz subgenre “flute-jazz” and the label CTI. In the late 60’s ...

In the early 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola worked at such a prolific rate that he not only released The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II...

Since drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and rapper Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter formed The Roots nearly thirty years ago while attending...

Think about the extraordinary turn Marlon Brando’s career was taking in the 1970’s.  After stalling a bit in the late 60’s he came roaring...