If you were a suburban kid in the seventies obsessed with KISS, you can probably thank the 1976 Paul Lynde Halloween Special. At least that’s what happened...
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Listen to the podcast above (with song clips) or read below. Billy Joel wrote a lot of songs back when he was writing and recording....
I came of age in suburban Staten Island during the 80’s, back when you couldn’t hang on the stoop without someone blasting Billy Joel from a...
I listen to a lot of music, much of it through headphones. Sometimes because I have to, like when I’m on the train or if my girl...
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink Elvis Costello Blue Rider Press As a young man with questionable morals I stole cassettes from the cardboard standee at the pharmacy where...
* * * The video for “Traces Upon Your Face“ is gorgeous. Totally in tune with your growth as an artist and performer. What’s interesting to...
It was 1982. I was 12 years old and had my boombox plugged into an outlet on the side of the house blasting my friend’s copy of Joe Jackson’s Night...
The Decemberists – Florasongs Capitol Records – 2015 I caught The Decemberists at New York’s Radio City Music Hall a few weeks ago where they brought their usual concoction...