Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood
It’s not like there haven’t been many neighborhoods that have seemingly been populated with nothing…
Browsing: pop music
Interview with Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet
As a Bangle, Susanna Hoffs scaled the heights of the charts during the ‘80s with…
Deep Cuts: Billy Joel
When I was five years old in 1977, my older brother brought home Billy Joel’s…
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
While the name George Martin has become synonymous with the Beatles as the man behind…
Deep Cuts: Queen
The first LP (damn, I’m old) I ever bought was Queen’s The Game. I had…
Never Enough: The Story of the Cure
Perhaps the oddest thing about the release of “Never Enough,” Jeff Apter’s 300-plus page biography…
Deep Cuts: The Beatles
Assembling a list of deep cuts from the Beatles is one of the grandest exercises…
The Essential Petty
Check out this playlist from John Paulsen, and don’t miss John’s Tom Petty Deep Cuts,…
Deep Cuts: Tom Petty
My love affair with the music of Tom Petty began in 1989 when I saw…
Deep Cuts: REM
Statistics show – and please don’t ask to see the statistics, because someone set their…