Ah, springtime: the season when, after a quiet winter, compact discs begin to cover-like pollen-every flat surface in a pop critic’s humble abode. Time to play catch-up with a wrap-up of 14 records that I’ve consigned to one of three categories for ease of consumption.
1. Remember
(Enjoying Steady Rotation)
The Black Read More
Decade of ‘Buzz’ Forgotten; The Chatterati Get ‘Serious’
The city is engulfed in emotion. Principal among the feelings that pervade the community are grief, anger, shock-these need no further words from me. But there are other feelings at work as well, and these perhaps bear a bit more thinking about than has so far Read More
There’s an old expression that says, “Life doesn’t come with an instruction manual.” But if you happen to find yourself standing in the cockpit of a B-2 stealth bomber-as I did recently-you may be intrigued to learn that the costliest, most sophisticated aircraft ever built by mankind does, in fact, come with a relatively simple Read More
