However that person sees himself/herself is what he/she is. It can be fluid. I am a white guy married to a bi-racial (black, white) woman who grew up with her black family – and that is how she identifies. Our […]

Surprised myself by bursting into tears of relief.

How many seconds can you last?

1. Agreed on both counts.

2. Saw them play a small club date (in Philadelphia!). Very solid, great fun. Memorable encore: Gene Pitney’s “24 Hours from Tulsa,” sung in French!

It’s with massive embarrassment and relief – and apologies – that I announce the mailing today of my CDs. Will spare you the details except to say that I would not have wished the last few months of my life on […]

I did, and I am..

Don’t bother. Your suspicions are correct.

The fact that she has issued an apology at all is, in itself, enough to distinguish her from Trump.

I suspect that, for those of us of a certain age, the pop we love most was largely made before the LP became the preeminent vessel for music delivery. 45s were the big sellers, long players generally dashed off […]

The Kelly Jones who is a Stereophonic and the one who has just released a lovely little album of duets with Teddy Thompson.

Re the third example: And Gary Clark, Jr.

Also at Motown: Chris Clark – a white American woman.

He is, of course, the answer to the famous riddle: ‘What has horns on either side and a dick in the front?’

The Church (beloved by some in these environs) perhaps pulled off the most ambitious stunt of this kind on their 2011 tour when, on one night, they played in their entirety LPs from the ’80s (Starfish), ’90s […]

Wonderful. Thanks.

Nails it.

Please do. I’m at the last step in the process before sending mine out, but have been unable to locate anyone on my street who has iTunes. (This seems hard to believe, I know, but nonetheless…)

May I call the group’s attention to the microgenre of bands with crappy “&” names:

Me Me & the Gimme Gimmes

Margot & the Nuclear So-and-sos

Fitz & the Tantrums

Perhaps I am a bit sensitive, having […]

I may have mentioned this before, but in the Clarence Clemons’s autobiography ‘Big Man’ (yes, it exists, and don’t ask me why I read it), there is a similar why-didn’t-anyone-show-up-to-our-gig story involving an […]

Got yours. So it’s officially on….