Never mind the pair of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions (Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Hollies) or the Order of the British Empire, Graham Nash remains most acutely interested in now. Within...

Loudon Wainwright 3rd is apologizing, and it’s kind of funny. Midway through the conversation, an observation about his positive mental outlook comes up. He can’t help himself. “I...

When reflecting on the title of her latest album Mental Illness, Aimee Mann admits that a friend first suggested it as a joke. “But once he said it, I also thought it was accurate. The music I...

At the college radio station where I worked at Rollins College, the poster hung on the wall. A scrawny little thing with a few flaccid chest hairs, greaseball hair tumbling down as much Guido...

He was the Thin White Duke, the most glamorous man I’d ever seen. More glamorous than Bianca Jagger, and that was saying something in those Studio 54 years of excess, glimpsed as a child from...

“Eating is more intimate in a lot of ways than sex, and I promise it happens a lot more often, and regularly.”Ali Berlow laughs as she says this. The woman who founded the Island Grown...

It starts with a fluttering, circling, almost improv part. Then a second part rides in, a bit more insistent, clawhammer-style, carving a melody with its strings. So familiar, and yet. Then a woman...

Willy Mason is sitting on a barstool in a London pub, smoking a cigarette and considering the last decade. He takes a pull on his beer and thinks about what all the buzz — tours with Radiohead...

One of the very first things Ali Berlow tells you is that she’s never killed a chicken. “I’ve never killed a chicken, and I never intend to,” she says matter-of-factly.This...

Sean Wilentz is hardly your Quaaludes and vitriol music critic. That may be why the Bob Dylan in America author was commissioned to write the definitive history of one of America’s truly great...