Last week, The White Stripes announced that the band “has officially ended.” On The White Stripes website, Meg White and Jack White stated that there are many reasons for the split, but it is “mostly to preserve what is beautiful […]
Last week, The White Stripes announced that the band “has officially ended.” On The White Stripes website, Meg White and Jack White stated that there are many reasons for the split, but it is “mostly to preserve what is beautiful […]
This week, I visited the only remaining CD store within reasonable driving distance of where I live, an FYE chain CD and video store. It was not a great music store, but it was the last remaining new-CD store near […]
The two music magazines I used to most anticipate receiving in the mail were No Depression and the Oxford American Annual Southern Music Issue. So, this week, when I received my copy of the Twelfth Annual Southern Music Issue […]
In the last few weeks, recently retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John P. Stevens has been in the news for writing a book review, followed by an appearance on 60 Minutes. These recent stories about Justice Stevens and his changing […]
Fifty-five years ago on Dec. 9, Elvis Presley performed “Heartbreak Hotel” for the first time, although he would not record the song until a month later in January 1956. According to Ernst Jorgensen’s Elvis Presley: A Life in Music, the […]
This week was the release date for Bruce Springsteen’s “new” CD/DVD set, The Promise. The songs on the two-CD set mostly were recorded during sessions after 1975′s Born to Run and before 1978′s Darkness on the Edge of Town, but […]