Fearful Symmetries

Clean microwave. Check. Vacuum apartment. Check. Harvest my first serranoes of the year. Check. Get ladyfriend hooked on Rivers of London se...

Recently I put a CD shelf together and got all of my music CD's unpacked. Well, most of them. Bootlegs remain in a box. Since then I hav...

Jay Farrar continues channeling Woody Guthrie in a new song called "These Days Have No Shame". Also, Son Volt will be on tour lat...

Trane! I heard this on a soundtrack recently and it brought back memories of hearing it for the first time when I was heading home from Waun...

Today I learned that Jethro Tull's 1969 otune "Singing All Day" (a Benefit outtake?) uses the melody from "Swingin' ...

The legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes passed away yesterday at age 99. 99! The guy played with seemingly everyone - Lester Young, Charlie Pa...

A couple months ago I ran across a review of the Tomeka Reid Quartet's eponymous album at what I thought was a progressive rock review s...

Thanks to Mad City Music for the new tunes. And thanks to Chicago's Tomeka Reid for making the great tunes. I hope you can visit our f...

Back around 1997 or thereabouts, I ran into an essay by a gentleman named Judson Caswell called "Minstrel in the Gallery: History in th...

After seeing that mural , I discovered that legendary jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard is from Indianapolis.

(early-August 2023) (Take a look at the prelude .) Friday. Just after dawn. The sunlight squeaked in through the hotel room curtain. There w...

Bassist, UW-Madison professor emeritus, and social justice activist Richard Davis passed away a couple days ago. While jazz was his home ba...

A trio of previously uncirculated shows from the legendary Madison music venue, Merlyn's, have been posted at Dime. Air 1981-02-10 Art E...