Potpourri for $500

Last Wednesday was the start of an eleven-day period at the end of which I will have seen in concert, all for the first time: Dolly Parton ...

Phil Chevron, the longtime guitarist for the Pogues, has died after a recurrence of cancer . His best-known composition is this gem from ...

Apparently this has been out there for a while, but I only just heard it after seeing this piece in the Onion's AV Club , which I reco...

I used to be concerned that no one, not even myself, was blogging here but as long as fine readers like Powaquattsi keep sending me these S...

...Turns out it makes a lovely sound. Am I the only one that thinks "xylophone" just looks misspelled? Don't answer that.

Happy 70th birthday to Bob Dylan, whom JJV has never forgiven for going electric at Newport. Entirely by coincidence, he was born on the sa...

Lady Gaga has been described as a Madonna reboot, but a Facebook friend of mine indicates the roots of her style may run even deeper: Can ...

Tennessee Ernie Ford via the Red Army Choir (no, really): H/t Lawyers, Guns and Money

In the wake of the passage of Health Care Reform I thought I'd give you an idea of the alternatives for the next steps. We could adopt a...

Note the time you bailed out of this in comments. H/t Russian Navy Blog

After seeing this post Laura investigated further and found the MySpace page for the ukelele/finger piano duo. Come for the a-ha, stay fo...

Slate paraphrases Gordon Gekko, declaring that Creed is Good . No, I don't buy it either. (No no no, not that Creed - he's awesome...

Read the words . Check out the music. Right arm set at 90 degrees after an accident, only two working fingers on his left hand from arthriti...

Frequent contributor JWT comes through again with a link to an avant-garde Finnish accordionist . Now, most of you are saying, "OK, Da...

Let us bow our cowled heads to mark the passing of the Batman theme's composer . According to the article it took over a month to compo...