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For two years in a row in high school, I donned a gold lamé tux (WHY are there no pictures?) and acted as MC for what was blithely called A...

I still love record stores and don't need the excuse of Record Store Day to visit them. However, RSD is a good opportunity to drop b...

In 1974, Santana released a sprawling live album, Lotus, recorded in Japan and only available there. Somewhere near the middle of the th...

The history of North American music, at least since the Civil War is rife with tales of talented people of Valerie Coleman's "ski...

Around 1956, Buddy Holly established the quartet as the basic form of the rock band. In 1962, The Beatles made it de rigeur. On their 19...

I don't listen to radio. There may be podcasts I listen to that are broadcast, but I don't know where or when. There is one exce...

"I Never saw it as a career, to be honest. I still am a believer that pop and rock and roll music can be art." - Alasdair MacLe...

Shara Worden (center) and the BOAC All Stars Whenever I hear world-premiere performances - which almost can't be often enough - m...

Stravinsky in the 1950's "The piano itself is the center of my musical discoveries. Each note that I write is tried on it, and...

Chris Manak, AKA Peanut Butter Wolf, on the wheels of steel Fade from black: To the sound of a hot soul bass line we see the interior o...

We ran into Paul, my client at Warner Bros. Records, on 6th Avenue and he was almost wide-eyed with excitement. "Are you into Beck?...