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Verve Records was primarily a jazz label that eventually dabbled in folk, rock, and some other genres. In many respects, the label's heyday was in the 1960s. Blue Note is often applauded as being perh...

Marvin Gaye's career was cut short at the age of 44, as he was launching a comeback, when he was murdered by his father in 1984. In his short life, he made some of the best R&B and soul music ever, an...

26 Films for the 2026 Mid-termM Elections

The late 1980s were not very kind to many music lovers. With the iconic music of the 1960s and 1970s long in the rearview mirror and the fast-food, video-age pop of the '80s waning, those who would no...

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

Summer’s Almost Gone

Seu Jorge’s celebrated musical career transcends the borders of his home country, Brazil. Yet, oddly enough, more people might know him better from his film career. Jorge has appeared in more than 20 ...

The Rolling Stones are true rock ‘n’ roll survivors. Even in the midst of losing one of their key founding members, drummer extraordinaire, Charlie Watts, in 2021, and with its three principal members...

Stolen, Looted, Plundered, Missing, Ransomed, Abducted, Hunted, Recovered and Recued Art

It has been a banner year so far for fans of The Beatles. With news of the Rubber Soul deluxe edition box set coming in early October, let's take a look at some of the excellent Beatles-related albums...

Billy Preston had been making music as far back as 1956, backing Mahalia Jackson at the age of ten, and had recorded four albums since 1963 before he first entered The Beatles’ orbit. After playing on...

Fictional Forgeries and Fakes

Forgers, Fakes and Frauds

The Tedeschi Trucks Band released their debut album, Revelator, in 2011. After combining two bands and with Derek Trucks playing full-time with the group once he was no longer part of the Allman Broth...

Non-fiction Books By Former British Spies (including one working for the Russians)

Marvin Gaye went from strength to strength throughout most of his career. His early Tamla/Motown singles became big hits, and he had some of those hits as a duo, primarily with Tammi Terrell. His albu...

With our previous article on Miles Davis, we kicked off commemorating the jazz trumpeter's 100th birthday year with a review of an excellent audiophile stereo reissue of Kind of Blue. While the album ...

Writing About and around Town

Kind of Blue from Miles Davis may be the most examined and re-examined album in jazz music history. The biggest-selling and most popular album in jazz history has been reissued countless times over th...

The Algonquin Round-table

It's difficult to explain to today's pop music fans just how big Frampton Comes Alive! was when it was released in 1976. The double-live album was a blockbuster sales hit and a phenomenon. Music in th...

The Bloomsbury Group

There was a time in the early to mid-'70s when Glam was the hottest trend in music. Also referred to as Glitter rock, it had been brewing for a while and often encompassed groups or artists from other...

Parisian Guide Books

Literary Memoirs of France and Italy

Supertramp is one of the many groups or artists who started in the late 1960s or early 1970s as artsy, offbeat, or even underground unknowns and, by sometime before the end of the 1970s, became multi-...

The French Riviera/Côte d'Azur

Besucht er das Internationale Wirtschaftsforum in Russland? Oder will er etwa Kremlchef Putin treffen? Vieles ist noch unklar, aber eins steht fest: Altkanzler Schröder ist zurzeit in Russland.

The Jazz Age

The Zombies are often remembered almost exclusively as a British Invasion 1960s pop group, best known for such delightful hits as “She's Not There,” “Tell Her No,” and “Time of the Season.” The group'...

Bob Dylan turns 85 on May 24. June 20 will mark the 60th anniversary of the release of Blonde on Blonde, perhaps Dylan's most ambitious album and the one that concluded the trilogy of albums that was ...

Lovers of bespoke, limited edition, audiophile reissues are living in a golden age as new audiophile reissue series continue to be launched. One that debuted recently is the Vinylphyle series. In this...

The agency, which was founded to protect the environment and human health, has cancelled safety regulations, supported coal, and stopped caring about climate change.

The music world lost Robert Flack in February of 2025. Flack began her singular career in 1969 and released her 15th and final album in 2012. Her Atlantic Records albums make up the bulk of her record...

The Court went from condemning partisan gerrymandering to effectively encouraging it.