There’s something off about Taylor Swift…isn’t there? Despite possessing the statuesque––and ergo the most expedient––corporeal proportions to satisfy the modern music industry’s criteria for success, and yet after also having...
YouTube is done. All the damn ads have killed it. They have for me, anyway. There goes my journalistic credibility as well. If you’ve ever been...
Remember me, but oh, forget my fate. ––Henry Purcell, “Dido’s Lament” When Jeff Buckley drowned in the Wolf River tributary of the Mississippi on May 29,...
For the longest time (hell, maybe they still do), Japanese authorities enforced strict regulations at domestic concerts featuring touring rock bands; the audiences were only allowed...
No, his mind is not for rent To any god or government Always hopeful, yet discontent He knows changes aren’t permanent But change is ––Neil Peart,...
On October 26, 1965, the Beatles received M. B. E.––Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire––medals from Queen Elizabeth II during a formal...
It’s 1976, and you are at one of rock ‘n’ roll’s premier pilgrimage sites: Detroit’s Cobo Hall. The rest of the headlining band has left the...
The quartet would take the stage to the anticipatory swell of applause from an all-ages audience that had paid less than 10 dollars to get in,...
It’s Thanksgiving, 1976, and you’re lucky enough to be at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom for The Band’s farewell concert extravaganza. They’re in more than fine form,...