The Selected Ballads

A few words about the great St. Louis sculptor/builder/doer/civic hero Bob Cassilly, who died this week in an accident while working on his ...

Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices I don't remember exactly when or where I first heard about this one, but I did some have curiosity abou...

I've just started reading Geoff Dyer's newish essay/review collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition , and Dyer has already ...

I'm willing to confess that I've tended to enjoy bands influenced by the Velvet Underground more than the VU themselves, which may e...

This post is over a year old, but I just discovered it. Jim Dickinson interviewed about the recording of Big Star's Third (aka Sister ...

Hank Jones - The Oracle (with Dave Holland and Billy Higgins) From 1989 - if you heard this record in a blindfold test and weren't fam...

Ramazzotti Amaro This Italian bitter liqueur (whose producer apparently spent a bit of money on their website ) is less bitter and less br...