Few lists come as loaded as this: Kelly Clarkson realizing what the bands cited in Meet Me in the Bathroom needed several tons of coke to achieve liftoff; Mariah Carey whisper-whiskering a midtempo…

Paris during the Occupation. T.E. Lawrence in the desert. Italian youth cults sporting feather cuts (i.e. mullets). Beat-wise and melodically surprising, Pet Shop Boys’ B-sides comprised a pa…

Paris during the Occupation. T.E. Lawrence in the desert. Italian youth cults sporting feather cuts (i.e. mullets). Beat-wise and melodically surprising, Pet Shop Boys’ B-sides comprised a pa…

How Sting must have bled internally when using apostrophes on the self-righteous “Epilogue.” After all, in his quest to educate listeners in Cliff Notes Nabokov, Jungian theory cribbed …

Insisting on irony as an essential prism, these gay heroes understand how, rather than mitigating or cheapening the lusts of their male characters, it intensifies experiences as casual as a glance …

Insisting on irony as an essential prism, these gay heroes understand how, rather than mitigating or cheapening the lusts of their male characters, it intensifies experiences as casual as a glance …

Evidence of AT 40 Racism Part XCI: The Gap Band’s “Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me),” their first essential ’80s single, sputtered at #84.

Evidence of AT 40 Racism Part XCI: The Gap Band’s “Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me),” their first essential ’80s single, sputtered at #84.

How Sting must have bled internally when using apostrophes on the self-righteous “Epilogue.” After all, in his quest to educate listeners in Cliff Notes Nabokov, Jungian theory cribbed …

Lindsey Buckingham was the singer-guitarist-producer of Fleetwood Mac. He has also recorded a series of okay to good solo albums. The list below encompasses material from 1975’s Fleetwood Mac…

I love Bare Trees — misty pink frost-veiled sleeve (The Cure’s Robert Smith no doubt took a cue for Faith) mirrors the forward motion of Bob Welch and Danny Kirwan’s blues; when C…

I love Bare Trees — misty pink frost-veiled sleeve (The Cure’s Robert Smith no doubt took a cue for Faith) mirrors the forward motion of Bob Welch and Danny Kirwan’s blues; when C…

The beneficiary of early MTV play, “Don’t Change” has gotten an outsized affection in the last half decade, certainly more than first AT40 hit “The One Thing” in early…

Read Alfred Soto’s review of the album.

I’m under another deadline so I kept this reviews short. Miranda Lambert remains human. Tinashe is close to matching her Kerosene-Crazy Ex-Girlfriend-Revolution hot streak. Miranda Lambert &#…

Marcello Carlin’s dismissal made me reexamine, as he often does about other things, why I like a Sting concept album about whether it took his father longer to die than the album does to end.

Read Alfred Soto’s review of the album.

Marcello Carlin’s dismissal made me reexamine, as he often does about other things, why I like a Sting concept album about whether it took his father longer to die than the album does to end.

Their logic tied us up and raped us. They’re meaningless and all that’s true. They send out an SOS. The Police are responsible for so many proverbs that they rendered the Old Testament …

Many obscurities (to me) on this list: I had not heard The Fools’ version of Roy Orbison’s “Running Scared,” never knew Jermaine Jackson followed up “Let’s Get S…

Their logic tied us up and raped us. They’re meaningless and all that’s true. They send out an SOS. The Police are responsible for so many proverbs that they rendered the Old Testament …

Many obscurities (to me) on this list: I had not heard The Fools’ version of Roy Orbison’s “Running Scared,” never knew Jermaine Jackson followed up “Let’s Get S…

Here’s a book just for me: Neil Gross’ What Happened to College?: How Politics Broke Higher Education and What We Can Do to Fix It. Subtitles like this one induce cringes. If I want a h…

Here’s a book just for me: Neil Gross’ What Happened to College?: How Politics Broke Higher Education and What We Can Do to Fix It. Subtitles like this one induce cringes. If I want a h…

Exploring every nuance in the Velvet Underground’s diamond-sharp rhythm strumming on “What Goes On” like Alexander Pope did the heroic couplet, The Feelies produced a jittery post…

About “Good,” a song that made me giggle at the time, Tom Breihan wrote this year: “Good” sounded like someone applying serrated grunge sonics to a catchy garage-pop song. T…

About “Good,” a song that made me giggle at the time, Tom Breihan wrote this year: “Good” sounded like someone applying serrated grunge sonics to a catchy garage-pop song. T…

I gave myself a pat on the back when I got the reference to “Montgomery Clift, honey!” in The Clash’s “The Right Profile.” Most of his slender filmography was availabl…

Creating films whose sensibilities and textures suggested Kenneth Grahame directed by Fritz Lang, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger as The Archers dominated British cinema in the period before …

Creating films whose sensibilities and textures suggested Kenneth Grahame directed by Fritz Lang, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger as The Archers dominated British cinema in the period before …

My affection for blank technician Bernard Sumner as singer-guitarist rests on how anonymously he expresses him as vocalist and on his guitar — he could be your cousin Bernie, unemployed since…

My affection for blank technician Bernard Sumner as singer-guitarist rests on how anonymously he expresses him as vocalist and on his guitar — he could be your cousin Bernie, unemployed since…

Never mind its Dadaist impact — I value “Come With Me” as an example of what Madonna later called the impressive instant. With Tom Morello and, egads, Jimmy Page playing the latte…

Never mind its Dadaist impact — I value “Come With Me” as an example of what Madonna later called the impressive instant. With Tom Morello and, egads, Jimmy Page playing the latte…

I gave myself a pat on the back when I got the reference to “Montgomery Clift, honey!” in The Clash’s “The Right Profile.” Most of his slender filmography was availabl…

I gave myself a pat on the back when I got the reference to “Montgomery Clift, honey!” in The Clash’s “The Right Profile.” Most of his slender filmography was availabl…

Screen Drafts rookies Karina Longworth (You Must Remember This) and Alex Ross (The New Yorker) join us at the Draft Table to competitively / collaboratively rank the 7 BEST films from the filmography ...

Absorbing Noname, Christine and the Queens, Eric Church, and Neneh Cherry has put Suede’s new album at the bottom of my list of priorities, but the excellence of their two albums released thi…

Absorbing Noname, Christine and the Queens, Eric Church, and Neneh Cherry has put Suede’s new album at the bottom of my list of priorities, but the excellence of their two albums released thi…

Frustrated that his 1985 solo debut, despite the millions CBS spent in promotion, piddled out below the top ten, Mick Jagger understood he had a problem. No one under forty thought him a credible s…

Frustrated that his 1985 solo debut, despite the millions CBS spent in promotion, piddled out below the top ten, Mick Jagger understood he had a problem. No one under forty thought him a credible s…

With Miranda Lambert’s Cisco out in a few days and two Ashley Monroe releases to contend with in the last year, I thought it appropriate to give Pistol Annies another listen. Boy, howdy, do t…