Rock/pop music is a tough business. If you make one great album, that's impressive. But to have made great albums at the start of your career and to still be making great albums now - that's mind blowing. Here are three who have done just that ( Read more... )

I saw the musical "On The Twentieth Century" yesterday and what a treat it was ( Read more... )

Up until now, all the songs I've picked have been music I've owned. This week that's not necessarily the case because this week, the focus isn't so much on music but on dancers. Here are solo dancers and pairs. Big chorus type numbers will be reserved for a future date ( Read more... )

I had to work all day today (I know, so very sad), so today's post will be shorter than normal ( Read more... )

I already listed 2 of my favorites last week, Digital Witness by St. Vincent and Two Weeks by Fka Twigs. The rest are listed in no particular order, except for the final one, which was my favorite of the year.

"Queen" by Perfume Genius

Gay panic, taken to its logical extremes. I am really looking forward to the whole album.

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"Blank Space" by ( Read more... )

Once again, The Village Voice, that venerable counter culture institution, has released it's list of best albums of the year, based on polls filled out by over 600 critics ( Read more... )

The week's title is a reference to John Fogerty's song "I Saw It on TV". And if you don't know who he is, all I saw is Creedence Clearwater Revival. And if you don't know who that is, mention in the comments and I'll have to do a musical education post on a different Sunday ( Read more... )

Now that I'm back, it's time to start up music on Sundays again. I figured to start off, I'd begin by highlighting powerhouse woman singers. The majority of these will be well known to all of you, but that doesn't make them any less enjoyable ( Read more... )

I've been listening to The Beach Boys quite a bit over the best week, so I thought I'd share with all of you ( Read more... )

This week, I thought I'd do something a little different - post about every album I own that is by a group/person that starts with the letter Q. Even I do not own that much Q stuff (although I certainly own more that the average person, lol). But even in my fairly meager Q collection there are all the hallmarks of my much bigger collection - a wide ( Read more... )