Big Star, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 70s
There are a few bands that surface over and over again in interviews with rock stars as serious influences on serious musicians. Others rattle the landscape even if they inhabit their own space, free of any imitators or hangers on. Usually they’re bands you’ve never heard, or even heard of. In the past I’ve been [...]
While I was out…
I went a little light on blogging the last week or two as a combination of workload and concert week stress took their toll. And, as is customary, all hell broke loose across the blogosphere. The combination of the discovery of the identity of Salam Pax (he’s a gay Iraqi translator who now has a [...]

