Music Essays, Reviews, Previews, Quotes, Etc.
7 Classic Springsteen Stories that Are Well Worth Mass Retelling
A Fair & Balanced Assessment of Taylor Swift’s Celebrity Persona
An Album for All Seasons: Five for The Winter
Big Star: “Nothing Can Hurt Me” (Documentary review)
“Frank Sinatra: American Icon” at The New York Pubic Library
Frank Zappa on Organized Religion
Joan Jett & The Legend of Blackheart Records (Crawdaddy! Interview)
Journey: “Don’t Stop Believin'” (Documentary review)
Julian Casablancas Copes (Village Voice Interview)
Kathleen Hanna: “The Punk Singer” (Documentary review)
Lee Fields at The Music Hall of Williamsburg
Lissy Trullie at The Mercury Lounge
The New York Dolls’ Sylvain Sylvain (Crawdaddy! Interview)
Pete Townshend on ‘Positive Assistance Vibration’
Rufus Wainwright at The Church of The Ascension
Steven Van Zandt: The Crawdaddy! Interview
Suze Rotolo: Every Picture Tells a Story
The Wild, The Innocent, and The Craig Finn Shuffle
When Bad Things Happen to Great Writers (On Paul Williams, Founder of Crawdaddy!)
Why I’d Take Courtney Love Over Kurt Cobain Any Day of the Week
Why Laura Marling May Well Be the Most Important Folk Artist to Come Along in 40 Years