I have built my entire life around loving music, and I surround myself with it. I’m always racing to catch up on my next favorite song. But I never stop playing my mixes. Every fan makes them. The tim...
Despite all the solo vocals, each using the others as a back-up group, the White Album still sounds haunted by memories of friendship—that dreamlike state they could still zoom into hearing each other...
But when you're a teenage boy, you can be narrow-minded about things that are girlie, things that are frivolous, things that are pop. Boys always want to be taken seriously, and they always want to tr...
Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationsh...
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so...
Some of us are born Gladys Knights, and some of us are born Pips.
CARY GRANT IS THE MCCARTNEY OF MOVIE STARS—HIS STORY has much to tell us about Paul’s. They share a spiritual connection, beyond their pronunciation of Judy. (Paul described his hey Judy-Judy-Judy ad...
But things started to wobble around the time R.E.M. put out a truly wretched album called Document, the one that made her reconsider whether she could continue to worship Michael Stipe. I blamed R.E.M...
20. Bob Dylan, 4th Time Around (1966) Right after Rubber Soul dropped, Bob Dylan recorded Blonde on Blonde, where he sang this scorchingly funny parody of Norwegian Wood. Dylan unkindly played 4th Tim...
Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for tha...
You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you? I long to live out this moment in real life.
When George was a kid he used to follow me and my first girlfriend, Cynthia—who became my wife—around. We’d come out of art school, and he’d be hovering around like those kids at the gate of the Dakot...
The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel t...
The real high point of his film career is The Hunger,
The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You arethere, my friend.
It’s a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving.
I believe that when you’re making a mix, you’re making history.
But bringing people together is what music has always done best.
At work she became instant best friends with the Clinique girl, Susan, a Waynesboro muscle-car aficionado. She was fond of dispensinf wisdom along the lines or: The bullshit stops when the green light...
It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even...
