On a perfect early fall evening, under the stars at Merriweather Post Pavilion, The Chicks made a triumphant return to live music in the...

In the year 2000, I was working at the National Academy of Sciences with a great group of people. One of whom was a guy who taught me a...

Earlier this month, my wife and I celebrated our 21st anniversary (We were married on August 3rd). It got me thinking about many things,...

When hosting a dinner party, the food and drinks are clearly the 1A of your party. But following close behind at 1B is the music you play...

Sinead O’Connor, the Irish singer/songwriter whose voice was powerful not only in song, but in protest as well, has died at the age of...

I love when a band comes along that finds inspiration from artists that I love and that I grew up listening to as well. Dylan,...

To say I’m a fan of the Canadian rock band Sloan is an understatement. I’ve followed the band for over 30 years and like wine, the band...

Last weekend, I was lucky enough to be in New Orleans for the 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. It’s a music festival rich in...

Every now and then, I hear cover songs that catch my ear - for the most part, it’s because it doesn’t sound exactly like the original....

In 1987, after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of...

Margo Price put on one hell of a show Thursday night at the sold out 9:30 Club. The evolution of Price’s music career was on full display...

David Jolicoeur (known as Trugoy the Dove) of De La Soul died on Sunday - he was 54 years old. The rap trio expanded the stylistic...

Over the weekend, the music world lost two of its most influential figures - Tom Verlaine, the singer/guitarist who fronted the band...

It’s that time again - time for family and friends to get together in whatever numbers and whatever style - that time to sit down and...

Thanks to some sweepstakes winning tickets from WRNR, I spent Sunday night at the 9:30 Club with a few hundred people - It was my first...

It's 11:45 pm on a Sunday night as I write this - I'm sitting at the desk of a hotel room in New York City as my son drifts off to sleep....

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty...

I’ve been going to concerts since 1985 - My first was Heart and Cheap Trick at Merriweather Post Pavilion. It was everything I had...

Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave”...

We all learned the song in pre-school, “Days of the Week” (sung to the tune of “The Addams Family” theme). Well this is the grown-up...