News has just reached me of the death of country singer, piano player, and songwriter Mickey Gilley on May 7…

While the Oscars, Emmys, and other American award shows are fading into irrelevance, Europe’s big splashy annual entertainment competition, Eurovision,…

My mates from the Spanish band Hombres G are on tour in the United States. Today they’re in San Francisco,…

It’s been a strange time to be a freethinking rock fan. Counterculture legends Joni Mitchell and Neil Young — the…

Bobbie Nelson, Willie Nelson’s talented sister, died Thursday morning at her home in Austin, Texas. A post on Willie’s Instagram…

I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me?  – Beck, “Loser,” 1994  Bite my lip and close my…

The saga of podcaster extraordinaire Joe Rogan and the music/audio platform Spotify took a predictably nasty turn last week. There…

If you want to witness real courage by performance artists taking on systemic injustice, look not west to Hollywood but…

The world can be a harsh place. People die every second of every minute of the day, many in unjust,…

Election Day! A great day, and often a brutal one. What can we do about it? Libby commented on my…