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As the year teeters on its fulcrum point, here's some stuff that almost made my Top Ten from last year and that you might have missed. F...

I took it down to the wire, and I'm glad I did. At least one item here came in over the transom less than two weeks before the end of th...

Looking back on my year in live music, I realized that I was accompanied by my daughter, Hannah (11 in January 2010), to all five concerts I...

As the world begins to assemble top ten lists and look back over the year in music, I find myself thinking about those moments in the past 1...

One, Two, Three, Four, Cough. Then came Revolver. I got it for my birthday the year after the three 45's that started my collection. ...

Thanks for coming back. Here's where the madness began. I would lie in my bed, listening to to my knight's-helmet-shaped AM rad...

Where I'm Coming From On the eve of my birthday, I thought I would give a little background on why I started anearful. I created thi...

Why do you like this? That was...interesting. That sounds weird!  Having gotten those responses (and many others) to some of the music I...

The arithmetic of four walls and a stage usually adds up to just another venue. But sometimes, through a dark alchemy, the result is a place...

Here's a brief roundup of snap judgments and potential overstatements. Radio On The TV:  Say what you will about The Who's perfo...

Spoon | Transference (Merge, 2010): I'm not hip enough to have followed Britt Daniel's band from the beginning. Like many others...