Give me your music, your art, your huddled masses of words and rhythms yearning to breathe free.
Dana Spiardi 
Question: what’s the next best thing to seeing your favorite artist perform at a rock concert? Answer: receiving a copy of the show’s program from a friend who attended the gig. Okay, I know that’s a stretch. Sure, you can drool over a concert program all you like, flip its pages till they fall out, … Read more
Oh, take me on a journey to a place where I can lay my burden down, legalize my lows, and let the music wash my soul. In other words, “Take Me to the Mardi Gras.” That’s the name of a song written and recorded by Paul Simon for his 1973 “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon” LP. … Read more
“Boy, if we ever hit number one, we’d love to be on the Joe Franklin Show!” That’s what J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf quipped to the host of TV’s longest running talk show, on the night he and his bandmates hijacked Franklin’s late-night program. The date was February 20, 1982, and the veteran party … Read more
On this date in 1949, RCA Records issued the first ever 45 rpm single. So, why am I featuring their rival, Capitol Records, in this post? Because, as we celebrate this anniversary, it gives me the perfect opportunity to show how the little vinyl disc influenced the design of one of the world’s most famous … Read more
I was ready to log out of Facebook, with a vow to shake that social-media-monkey off my back for the rest of the day and get some real work done. And then I saw a post about a new video directed by filmmaker Max Weiland, cut to one of Elton John’s classic songs: “Tiny Dancer.” … Read more