We asked our contributors and followers what their favorite cover songs were, along with R. Mike Burr’s piece […]

Ray Padgett’s Cover Me gives the prestige treatment to the humblest of album afterthoughts and concert crowd pleasers:  […]

One night soon after we moved to Atlanta, I was hanging out at the Graveyard Tavern, killing time […]

Don’t underestimate the Airplane, even if it’s easy to do. Sure, none of their other music exceeds the […]

“Ambition makes you look pretty ugly,” Thom Yorke sneered on Radiohead’s seminal 1997 album OK Computer. He did […]

This blog has never made a secret of its furtive love for the Purple One. He was one […]

Popping is a dance style that originated in Fresno and is characterized by abrupt spastic movements. The dancers pop […]

In the summer of 1973, DJ Kool Herc tried something new on the turntables: by extending the beat, […]