The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

I recently saw the musical 'Hamilton', which was an enjoyable depiction of American nostalgia for its own myths. That much isn't...

Apropos nothing, the great Earl Scruggs, playing 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown' (which he in fact wrote), the best banjo tune perhaps si...

Last time's thoughts here and here . -Concert festivals are one of the very few ways to a get a relative price measure of the popula...

So Pete Seeger died last week. I meant to write about this earlier, but didn't. I always loved Pete's music. Granted, I'm sure...

What happens when the whitest band in history covers the second whitest band in history? A whole metric buttload of awesome, that’s what. ...

I've come to the conclusion that a large amount of existence of small local bands can be explained by option value. The bands thems...

In January 1936, King George V was in seriously declining health. He had suffered from pleurisy and pulmonary disease for a number of years,...

Anything on the heels of the last post is bound to be flippant. So it goes. So why not go the full flippant? I finally came across a youtu...

The great Desmond Dekker: Music this good was being played in 1968? Unheard of! (via Steve Sailer )

Like the tobacco industry, you need not want to purchase a product to respect a well-constructed business strategy. Consider the example o...

My corner solution song of the moment is 'Hyperactive', by the Dollyrots. Imagine everything you secretly like about Avril Lavigne,...

Do friends and colleagues accuse you of being 'too masculine' or 'too heteronormative'? Thankfully, today's selection of...

George Gershwin is rolling in his grave every time you play your sh***y bastardised adult contemporary version of 'Rhapsody in Blue'...

If I had to submit a candidate for the category of 'music video that adds most to the underlying song', this would have a very good ...