Sometimes family issues don’t get resolved. Instead they get buried, simmering under the surface, peaking out at inopportune moments, and...

Released exactly ten years and seven days ago was M.I.A.’s sophomore album Kala . Her first album, Arular (named after her father), was a...

Years ago, I was working as a bartender at a music venue in my hometown of Dubuque, Iowa. One of my regular barflies, Paul, and I ended up...

One thing that came with the territory of having been an avid record collector all my life was the benefit of an education in history thro...

When Zodiac came out in the spring of 2007, I had grown very fatigued with the trends of the time for forensic procedurals and entertainm...

In the fall of 2006, I struggled through the last year of my twenties trying to balance the demands of graduate school and the collapse of...

Why does this movie have a reflective hold on my mind and soul? It is flawed and dated, and yet, the underlying theme of a confused man’s ...

When Leon Russell recorded this massive 3 LP (or 2 CD) set in 1972, it seemed like he was riding a never-cresting wave of popularity and h...

William: “It's as if I've taken love heroin, and now I can't ever have it again.” Recently I found myself watching a much-...

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...