A Celebration of Patti Smith, Carnegie Hall, March 26, 2025

My favorite element has always been figuring out what songs the artists decide they want to perform and how they interpret them.

Music Book Review: "Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story Of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival"

There is dirt. There is sex and drugs. There are internecine squabbles.

Music Book Review: "Heartbreaker," by Mike Campbell

I read "Heartbreaker" in three days. I didn’t want to put it down.

Music Book Review: Mood Machine by Liz Pelly

What Pelly’s book does a fantastic job of uncovering is how Spotify just does not care about music.

Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve, Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI, March 8, 2025

they call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie

David Johansen: David Johansen

let's just dance.

Learning Songwriting with Brian Eno

"It all feeds you."

For Marianne Faithfull.

side two. song four.

Visiting the MC5 Inductee Exhibit at the Rock Hall

Staying alive with the MC5

Double Dynamite: Sam Moore & Bruce Springsteen on the Asbury Park Boardwalk

In December of 2003, Bruce Springsteen once again returned to fabulous Convention Hall in beautiful Asbury Park, NJ for what had become a semi-regular tradition of benefit Christmas shows in his adopted hometown. Joining him were the Max Weinberg 7, the Alliance Singers, Steve Van Zandt, Nils Lofgren, Southside Johnny,

"Good, occasionally poor," or: the mystery of the Shipping Forecast

The area forecasts for the next 24 hours.

remnants: Patti Smith and Her Band, Webster Hall, 29 & 30 December 2013 [+ bonus downloads]

She reminds us that 2014 is the Year of the Horse and we need to work and be free and be healthy and strong.

Newsletter

What I'm Reading: Newsletter Edition

I figured it would also be interesting to write about other things with words.

Bob Dylan

"A Complete Unknown" Gets It Right

This thing has a heart.

Documentaries

Deciphering "Beatles '64"

Disney+, the channel for normies to get access to Beatles rarities, is at it again.

Radio Radio

Radio relay towers, won't you lead me to my baby

The other day, I was driving somewhere and listening to Little Steven’s show on Underground Garage. He was talking about Brian Jones’ death, and I appreciated that he actually said the words “murder” and offered his opinions on who was behind this unfortunate occurrence. I was listening to him

Springsteen

remnants: Springsteen & U2, World AIDS Day Concert, Times Square, December 1, 2014

“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MR. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN"

Concert Reviews

Low Cut Connie live, Columbus, OH, November 19, 2024

Rough fuckin' week in America / I wanna throw my haircut against that wall

Concert Reviews

remnants: Welcome to the Occupation, R.E.M. at MSG, November 4, 2004

Let’s put our heads together/and start a new country up.

Springsteen

"a fighting prayer for our country" - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Toronto, November 6, 2024

Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.

Springsteen

Why Bruce Springsteen's "Road Diary" works so well

What Road Diary does particularly well is unpack how Springsteen works his magic.

Documentaries

Heartbreakers Beach Party

What’s unique is that Heartbreakers Beach Party gets to exist in a vacuum.

Fandom

On the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2024 Induction Ceremony

The Rock Hall matters because it matters, but they have got to do better.

Detroit

LONG LIVE THE MC5: the MC5's history in Southwestern Michigan

"While I do not intend to take such radical steps such as boycotting the Hullabaloo, I will never again spend $2.50 to see these guys."