Once again reaching back into the bought-but-rarely-touched segment of my cd collection, we find the Dandies, a band that's never really moved me but, for reasons hard to explain, I keep giving a shot. …

Matt Pond as his shifting band of players have been quietly putting out decent if underachieving mellow indie pop for a decade or so, developing a healthy catalog of material. They easily check off a l …

The third and final disc in the anthology focuses exclusively on Nick's super-suave soul/country/pop crooning work of the past fourteen years, an approach that suits him far better than I, for one, wou …

The second of this anthology's three discs focuses on Nick's work with Rockpile (the Labour of Lust, Seconds of Pleasure and, without Dave Edmunds, Nick the Knife albums) and his "pick-a-style-any-styl …

The first of three discs attempting to chronicle the long and storied career of one of rock's most subtly subversive iconoclasts, compiled for my friend Kristi's birthday yesterday. This disc spans 197 …

When Bo appeared on Ed Sullivan, he was supposed to perform track 7, but did track 4 instead (Ed was furious). Bo was born on December 30, 1928, in McComb, Mississippi. He died June 2, 2008, of heart f …

After I discovered real music in '87 (via my brother's copy of The Cure's Standing on a Beach), I began a religious devotion to KROQ and 120 Minutes (and, to a lesser extent, Video 1). "Scotty's Lament …

It's time for me to come out of the closet: after years of near-hostile ambivalence, I've decided that I like the Doors quite a bit. There's certainly no excuse for the Cult of Morrison (who was pretty …