Wherein Brown answers the door.
The Time Traveler, Part 6
From The Stacks: The Police, ‘De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da’ (Foreign Language Single)
You don’t get to be the biggest band in the world by ignoring huge swaths of the world.
Deep Cuts: Songs For Imagining
Imagination really is both our greatest blessing and our greatest liability.
On My Turntable: Alien Knife Fight, “Flightplan”
Kick around long enough and you’ve heard it all. Or so you think.
The Time Traveler, Part 5
Wherein Brown advocates for zoos and circuses and eats a lot of pizza.
From the Stacks: Cheech and Chong, ‘Big Bambu’ (With Extras)
What makes a record worth collecting?
Deep Cuts: Television Songs
Commercial television broadcasts began in the 1930s, but in real terms the boom didn’t begin until the ’50s.
The Time Traveler, Part 4
Wherein Brown stumbles upon reality television and reality stumbles upon Brown.
From the Stacks: Chuck Berry, ‘The Chess Box’
When Chess Records released The Chess Box in 1988, Chuck Berry was enjoying one last major revival in a career that began with a reform school quartet in the mid-1940s and will […]
Deep Cuts: Coffee Songs
The photo accompanying this “Deep Cuts” gives you some idea of how seriously we used to take both our coffee and our sexism.
