Written on shirt cardboards from a laundromat, wily Dylan, in his “give the anarchist a cigarette” Bringing It All Back Home prime, flipped a stack full of lyric cue cards for “Subterranean Homesick Blues” for [...]
She & Him are nothing if not an aesthetic wonder – before lyricist and frontwoman Zooey Deschanel was Fox’s “New Girl,” she was still a full-time “manic pixie dream girl” in just about every previous [...]
Heralded as an emerging force within Chicago’s new school, 20-year-old Chancelor Bennett (a.k.a. Chance the Rapper) represents a seldom seen, criminally slept on, faction of Windy City lyricists – a collective of writers that are [...]
Kooky brit-rock poster child Keith Richards awoke from a slumber on this day in 1965, mid-US tour, and fumbled out the iconic riff for The Rolling Stones ”(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” telling his bandmates he couldn’t get any, [...]
In his sixth studio album Talib Kweli has finally broken free of his arrested development. For years he’s teetered in between the underground and mainstream. too lyrical for the pop light and too soft-spoken for [...]
A gem from budding-era Dylan when most of his wry humor got sucked up by the folk movement is heading to an auction in London next month. A submission to an unpublished book of anti-nuclear [...]
Dancing girls that may or may not be a porn plug, the return of 90s alt-rock heroes, Filter, and the twisted nightmare of a narrative as written on the walls of a bathroom, the second [...]
Kicking off its 58-episode run, The Johnny Cash Show taped its first performances on this day in 1969, featuring Joni Mitchell, Doug Kershaw and Bob Dylan, the latter of which joining the “Man in Black” on [...]
After nearly 30 years in the rap game, LL Cool J now finds himself in an all too familiar situation for veterans of his ilk. He’s Ali against Holmes. Jordan in a Wizards uniform. A relic who desperately needs to retire. Moreover, [...]
When all four Los Angeles police officers involved in the beating of Rodney King were acquitted on this day in 1992, all hell broke loose within a half an hour, in LA and in pockets [...]
