Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches

A beautiful waterfront view, free refreshments, twentysomethings milling about on a patio, a cute but unfriendly Beagle, corpse-painted blac...

It's been a while since I was really all that into the common social practice known as "getting high and listening to music." ...

Hopefully this MP3 will serve as a detailed demonstration of why you will not hear sicker drumming on a record this year than that perpetrat...

I've enjoyed Paper Thin Walls' Listening Party feature for a while--basically they post a stream of a band's new album and then ...

I've heard Cecil Taylor live at least six times before tonight, maybe more. In fact the inaugural post on this blog , bac...

My dear friend Jeff--we came of age together in KC, where we'll meet up in mid-August; he's now teaching in South Korea--was asking ...

My wonderful sister, Caroline--no, that's not her above!--and I have shared similar tastes in comedy for as long as I can remember. We u...

My listening habits are erratic but rarely random. Usually there's a pretty clear path. To illustrate... Recent Bobby Few research got ...

The theme for the weekend is space, and not the kind that's above us. Two events this weekend reminded me anew that real estate pretty m...

[Have never felt a particular urge to include a spoiler alert before a post, but I think I will here. Not that Herzog's Encounters at th...