Nellie McKay is a jazz-schooled, showtune-raised singer-songwriter whose stylistic tour-de-force debut double-album Get Away From Me was ...

     When first released in America in 1973, Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii was a moderate success, playing in art theatres, on campuses and ...

         The only thing I knew about Jamie Lidell in 2005 was that he was on Warp Records and he made a lot of bleep-bloop electronic mu...

"Anything's good for an alibi. Wives, girlfriends, bartenders, childhood friends, deceived husbands - but not an elevator. That...

I was very much a latecomer to Elliott Smith’s music. I’d been aware of his rise in popularity in the late 1990s and had a lot of friends w...

Director Abbas Kiarostami in the documentary 10 on Ten : “The subject of Ten is based on everyday life. Undoubtedly many serious viewers ...

Looking at contemporary jazz saxophone I believe one can trace the influences back to three saxophone players from the late fifties and ear...

I’ve mentioned in previous posts here my affinity for the Western genre. When I was little, my brothers and I would spend entire weekends w...

Let’s talk about hard rock and heavy metal. Exactly where and when it started is a subject of much debate, and there is probably not a real...

For a couple of years I lived in a small town in southern Vermont within walking distance of the Latchis Theater, an art deco movie house b...

It’s 1982. Let’s say you’re visiting New Orleans and you want to get out of the touristy French Quarter, past the scammers telling you the...

The qualities of a great family movie are very different than those required to make a film primarily for adults. Many of the conventions a...