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Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money

If there was a lot of money in the room in the Fillmore Sunday night, an engineering and construction firm that has the London Olympics as part of its client […]

More on Music at the Convention

Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney blogs for NPR, and though the dynamics of the blog can get on my nerves, I’m still usually interested. Today she talks about Wayne Kramer of […]

Sunday Night in Denver

As I drove to the New Orleans All Star Jam-Balaya, I passed a small pack of Hilary Clinton supporters half-heartedly waving an upside down “Hilary” sign at passing cars. A […]

A Sense of Occasion

I’m writing from Denver, where the Democratic National Convention starts tomorrow. Tonight is the New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya, featuring half of the known New Orleans musical world. The show’s a […]

The Words He Couldn’t Say

In today’s Huffington Post, Harry Shearer analyzes President Bush’s speech yesterday in New Orleans: As disturbing as the words he spoke were the words Bush never mentioned: in almost half […]

Making the Invisible Visible

If you don’t see links inside the blog posts, run your cursor over the text. I see them on some computers but not all computers, and our tech folks have […]

The Tubes Are Open

The Internet and I are together again. Sorry for the radio silence, but server issues shut me down for the last week. We’ve been so busy finishing the September issue […]

More on Isaac Hayes

Here’s part of Chuck Eddy’s excellent take on Isaac Hayes: When people say Hayes’ early ’70s recordings anticipated — maybe even invented — disco, this is part of what they’re […]

Isaac Hayes notes

I wonder if it’s now possible to imagine how alien the wah-wah in “Theme from Shaft” once sounded? When I was 12 or 13, a friend and I spent an […]

Love for Bo

Writer Ned Sublette’s appreciation of Bo Diddley was published in the new issue of Smithsonian, and it’s a personal, free-wheeling take on the breadth of Diddley’s accomplishments. Some you know, […]