Welcome to a special Valentine’s Day edition of TunesDay. Today, let’s celebrate the glory of love (although, if it’s all the same to you, we’ll do it without celebrating “The Glory of […]
The summer of the Son of Sam: a fantastic critique at Secondat
This week’s TunesDay featured a couple of new videos from Jeffrey Dean Foster, including one for “The Summer of the Son of Sam,” which is maybe the best song on Million Star […]
TunesDay: America singing 2: goodnight, Irene, goin' down to the crossroads…

Most music historians explain the origins of rock music as the gradual blending of Southern blues (both Mississippi Delta based acoustic style and Chicago electrified) with country/western music as codified by Nashville. […]
Looking for trouble with Elvis…
Elvis is dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. There is no doubt that Elvis is dead these thirty years this very day. This must be distinctly understood, […]