Dear listeners, Every once in a while, I like to compile a playlist composed entirely of songs with identical titles. You may recall that, last October,...
David Edward Byrd, who captured the swirl and energy of the 1960s and early ’70s by conjuring pinwheels of color with indelible posters for concerts by...
▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 4. Dua Lipa: “Houdini” My preference, when it comes to the two recent “Houdini” releases (Houdinii?), is this...
Barry Goldberg, an acclaimed keyboard player who slipped through a side door into the rock pantheon by taking part in Bob Dylan’s epochal electric set at...
Feb. 14, 1981 Funky 4 + 1 Invited by the host and “Rapture” hitmaker Debbie Harry of Blondie, the Funky 4 + 1 became the first...
Ever so self-effacingly, Garth Hudson breathed history into songs. At his magisterial Lowrey organ, he summoned Bach, hymns, the gospel church or a circus calliope. At...
