When I got on the plane taking me from St. Louis to Baltimore (by way of Atlanta), I didn’t have…
One You Missed: Spectrum Road
From where I sit, fusion has never gotten its just due. Jazz purists revile it for its use of electric…
A Rapid, Rigorous Radiohead Retrospective
Radiohead, it seems, is an all-or-nothing band. People either love them or hate them. I fall firmly in the former…
Blending In by Standing Out
I read an interesting column in the June issue of Jazz Times magazine. In it, columnist Natalie Weiner laments the…
Revisiting a Classic: U2, The Joshua Tree
The headline was splashed all over my cell phone: U2 is coming to St. Louis. The band will be here…
Planet Score is Aptly Named
Record stores aren’t what they used to be. There was a time when a trip to the record store was…
Box Set Reviews, vol. 1: Peter Gabriel, So
In a couple of weeks, I’m going to order a copy of the 50th anniversary box set of Sgt. Pepper’s…
The Heady Days of College Rock
This might come as a shock: the eighties weren’t the same for me musically as they were for most people…
Further Adventures in Intelli-Pop
For the most part, Pop music is uptempo. It’s bouncy. It’s sound is relatively simple, and easily repeated. But that…
R.I.P. Chris Cornell
I didn’t go to bed last night thinking about writing a tribute piece. But I woke up this morning to…
