Superlatives, The Column
I’ve read the data: my readers respond when I insult icons, dissect shabby and rotting pop phenomena, or reel…
February 2, 2015-
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Tim Sommer’s Letter to Blink 182 Fans
I understand that Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 has written a long and heartfelt letter to his fans, explaining and…
January 29, 2015 -
Happy Voyages, Joe Franklin
When his city hummed with radio waves, autumn colored incandescence heating up bakery brown Bakelite, He lived to be…
January 25, 2015 -
Kraftwerk’s Incredible Invention (and Where It Came From)
“The simplest description of emptiness in the Buddhist teachings is this sentence: This is because that is. A flower…
January 23, 2015 -
Tom Petty’s Tiny, Muppet-like Feet, and Other Observations from the Life of a (Sometimes Assholic) Music Journalist
I had the extraordinary good fortune to begin a career as a music journalist when I was barely 16.…
January 22, 2015 -
Reconsidering Elvis Presley
Somewhere in the sun-dulled suburbs clinging to Memphis, bleached yellow by the low, bright winter light and dotted by…
January 16, 2015 -
Lance Loud: The First Real Boy On The Sun
In 1973, I was unarguably a child, arguably pre-sexual, and extraordinarily curious about the world around me. I was…
January 12, 2015 -
A Visit from St. Grohl
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the hall Not a creature was stirring, except for Dave Grohl.…
December 24, 2014 -
Our Five Favorite Christmas Songs
For me (and, I suspect, others of my generation) Christmas will always be the Yule Log on WPIX, the…
December 22, 2014 -
We All Know the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame Blows. Can We Try to do Something About It?
Listen, there is very goddamn little need to add my churning, gasping puffs of breath to the howl of…
December 17, 2014