NYC Drive: The Best Show In Town
Without a doubt, one of my favorite television channels is NYC Drive. It features only one program, continuous but…
January 28, 2015-
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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 -
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 -
Derwood Andrews, and the sound of a post-punk, post-blues Catcus Acid Milkshake
Let’s put it this way: If TONE POET, VOL. II was a new album by Beck, it would almost…
December 16, 2014 -
Darius Rucker, Race, and Turning a Moment in Time into a True Movement
I understand that Darius Rucker is on the pants-end of a social media ass-kicking because he sang “White Christmas”…
December 15, 2014 -
The Ten Greatest Guitar Riffs of All Time, Revealed!
There is a delicious squabble going on in the webbernet: Kinks’ guitarist Dave Davies is appropriately livid that his…
December 11, 2014