God Only Knows
Brian Wilson Presents Smile (Nonesuch) READ MORE >>
The Blogging of American Pop
Johnny Mercer, one of the master artisans of pre-rock popular music, was driving with some friends to the Newport Jazz Festival one summer in the early 1960s when a Chuck Berry song came on the radio. Mercer listened closely and grinned, as one of his car mates, the film-maker Jean Bach, recalls. Soon he was singing along, beaming. Mercer leaned his face into the rushing air and slapped out the beat of the song on the side of the car that Bach's husband had rented for the weekend--a big red convertible, ideally suited to the moment. READ MORE >>
Where Has "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Gone
What if they had an anti-war movement and nobody came? READ MORE >>
The Body Eclectic
DAVE DOUGLAS: STRANGE LIBERATION (RCA) READ MORE >>
Tramps Like Who?
Bruce Springsteen's America: The People Listening, A Poet Singing By Robert Coles (Random House) READ MORE >>
This Year's Model
North Elvis Costello (Deutsche Grammophon) READ MORE >>
