Orchestra Baobab formed in 1970 out of the ashes of the legendary Star Band in Dakar, Senegal’s capital city. Singers Balla Sidibe, Rudy G...

A film by Yasujirō Ozu is not like a film by any other filmmaker. He has one of the most unique and easily identifiable stylistic signatur...

The 1990’s were kind of a magical time for me, in retrospect. I started junior high, high school and college in the 90s. I had my first st...

One of my dad’s favorite movies when I was growing up was 48 Hrs . He loved it and I would often hear him quote lines from it to his buddi...

Over the years as I have worked on and off at independent record stores, I’ve tried my best to learn more about music from my co-workers. ...

As a kid, I was drawn to science fiction like a moth to a flame. Star Wars premiered the same month I was born and my favorite after scho...

After the multi-colored explosion of counter-culture and youth exaltation that took place in mid to late 1960’s America, there was a desir...

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Typically for I’d Love to Turn You On we wait until an album is ten years old before it becomes eligible for the column - it has to be so...

Kay: “What if it does die?” Louis: “What?” Kay: “The tree.” Louis: “Well, we’ll get another one.” Kay: “Yeah, but this is our tree....

These days, if one talks about Megadeth, it’s more likely to be a conversation about what a pompous prick frontman Dave Mustaine publicly ...

Luis Buñuel’s relationship with his home country of Spain was a complicated one – it informed his work and was the root of his uniquely sk...