At the end of my interview with The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne last Tuesday—I'll post it closer to the release of the band's new disc next month—I mentioned how much my children, Posie and Levi,...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
For me, it would be seeing The Who in 1977. I had grown up listening to records and reading about rock...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I was motivated a lot by watching Missy Elliott videos. Living in the city is hard, and there's no hope, but she made me feel...
Since it was reported that Bob Dylan was stopped and questioned by the police last month, the blogosphere has been abuzz about why the music legend was wandering around a suburban New Jersey...
Bob Dylan and Jim Dickinson, who passed away yesterday, were kindred spirits. When Dylan won his Grammy for Time Out of Mind, he thanked “Jim Dickinson, my brother from Mississippi”...
Local hip-hop artist Mickey Free has remixed "That I Do," a track off Wye Oak's fab new disc, The Knot. You can check it out here. The band just played Merge Records' 20th anniversary concert in...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you? Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica had a huge impact on me. It was so different from everything else. My brother bought it when it...
Tomorrow night, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson will be in Cal Ripken's house. The pair of music legends will be appearing at Ripken Stadium for a reprise of a fantastic tour they did a few years ago....
Late Wednesday morning, artist James Reid beamed as his Billie Holiday sculpture was reinstalled atop the black marble pedestal he'd always envisioned for it. The statue, originally erected on...
Becoming Billie Holiday, by Baltimore's Carole Boston-Weatherford, has won the American Library Association's Coretta Scott King Award. According to the ALA website, the award is "given to an...
