This little passage is interesting in its historical time line of the transistion in music from stone scraping plastic to the new digital wonder era:  •  “Apple Corps., the record label's holding company, sued the fledgling computer business for infringing on its trademarked name. The matter was …

Sunday night and what do I do? I watched an hour on the history of disco. It was sort of a sanitized history of disco but still useful. Other than Saturday Night Fever, I never bought a disco album but it was still pervasive in my life from grade 4 or so to grade 11. I did buy (and think I still …

The other day when I did rock, I stood for a moment before the tour t-shirts and decided that, no, I would not buy one for 40 bucks even though there was a brown one with orange printing displaying the large Queen crest on the front. It was not that I would not have occassion to wear it or that I …

Rocking for Al as excellently portrayed in today's Star  •  Back. Just like that. Two hours and a bit ago I was in Toronto and now I am not. Intercity highways are the business:  •  Here is the question: Queen - yea or nay? The concert was good value. I realized along with the elder brothers that …

The caption on this photo at the BBC site reads:  •  “Miss Piggy dons a designer dress for a window display by London store Selfridges to celebrate 30 years of punk.”  •  I don't know what either Miss Piggy or Selfridges has to do with punk. But punk turning thirty has got me a bit, music of my …

It was quite sad to hear about Leonard Cohen finding himself in something approaching a view of the poor house due to a legal dispute in this era when he should be being dipped in gold as a national treasure. And I don't even like his songs that much. I do like, however, what he stands for as a …

The Rukster has reminded me of my early steps into bluegrass. I wrote a brief summary of my place in my pickin' and grinnin' edjification:  •  “I am following a similar path in bluegrass discovery, Peter, and I can heartily recommend String Fever on NCPR Thursdays 4 to 6 your time. It's a local …

Not to mention pops, skips and scratches on the record told you whose copy was playing.

Up too late watching the Grammy broadcast, listening to Christine Aguilera's voice writhe through a song-like thing and wondering how many degrees of separation there was between that voice that never really touches on a note and that of Mary Margaret O'Hara's. The high school marching band with …