Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen’s The Ideas That Made America provides an exciting, if quicksilver, tour through intellectual history.
Rock Preview: A Salute to the New Wave That Followed on the Heels of the First Wave
Dino Cattaneo saw an opportunity to mark another ruby anniversary with the help of “killer” – his word of choice – local artists.
Rock Album Review: Juliana Hatfield’s “Weird” — In Customary Fine Form
Overall, Juliana Hatfield’s Weird is closer to good than to great.
Book Interview: Tina Cassidy on the Woman Who Made Women’s Sufferage Happen
Tina Cassidy talks about her revealing and enjoyable new book about how a woman’s right to vote became enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
Music Interview: Martin Phillipps of The Chills
It would appear that Martin Phillipps and company are experiencing a late-career renaissance that bodes well for their future.
Music Interview: Talking With Colin Blunstone — Post-Zombies
“It’s a very exciting prospect that your peers think your worthy to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
Rock, Pop, and Folk Feature: Favorite Albums of 2018 — The Delightful Dozen
Here are 12 albums that come out in 2018 that I liked.
Book Interview: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices
The author’s combination of knowledge and experience has resulted in a boisterous chronicle of one of indie rock’s least probable but most luminous and unremitting stars.
Book Interview: Robert W. Fieseler on the legacy of the “Tinderbox”
One of the few books that examine the largest mass killing of gays and lesbians in the United States until the 2016 massacre at Pulse.
Music Interview: Thomas Dolby — Music, Entrepreneurship, and Academia
“Rather than encourage the machines to behave like machines, I chose to find ways to sort of use them to create a very cinematic and atmospheric soundscapes.”