Delighted to finally land this celebrated veteran book author! In the land of rock’n’pop, Joe knows....well, Joe knows his stuff! I’m working on MY first book; maybe next week, I can read another!📚🤣

Armlock and the Belair Lip Bombs being their appealing blends of Australian pop to Chicago

On Cecil Taylor and his Unit’s remarkable performance of “Second Act Of A” from 1969

The Go’s new-old-new album Free Electricity is let loose after 25 years

Curtis Mayfield’s “Move On Up” was an indictment of injustice, a paean to positivity, and one hell of a dance floor jam

The 12” “Special Disco Version” of “Miss You” both reflected and transcended the era

Lee Kirk’s Green Day road movie Nimrods happily plays with familiarity and good cheer

Remembering the writer Dave Marsh (1950-2026)

At the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, the Fleshtones celebrated their fiftieth anniversary with a roomful of friends

PART THIRTY: Joe Bonomo

At the Cobra Lounge in Chicago, Bad Nerves make it clear that they want to connect

Remembering "Monoman" and the records he made with DMZ and Lyres

In praise of the quirky pop brilliance of the late, lamented Dentists

The Whiffs prove that melodic, urgent rock and roll is alive and well

Phillip Lopate is one of our great writers on the pleasures and the pitfalls of urban life

Some thoughts on the unnerving and trippy songs that flying can inspire

"Facts are so beige," Robyn Hitchcock writes in his new memoir Stranded in the Future.

Some thoughts on two songs that Pete Townshend left off of the sprawling Quadrophenia

Amyl and the Sniffers rocked the Salt Shed in Chicago as ugliness transpired elsewhere

I look back at Paul McCartney's extraordinary solo career and write about my favorite songs from each decade

YouTube video by The Stooges - Topic