Ecstatic Wax

Ninety percent of all music I've purchased this year has come from thrift stores. It was one of my New Year's resolutions -- to a...

I've forsaken this page for too long. To the three or four of you who read this thing, I apologize for the dearth of updates in recent...

Do people actually enjoy the music of Todd Rundgren? Really, do people park their butts on the couch and say, "Phyllis, fetch my slippe...

On Saturday, July 31, Mitch Miller finally died. After 99 years! As I write, his corpse is being reunited with his music career. Sadly, I...

A reunion of the original Big Star is gaining steam .

I regret... ...telling a relative at a family Christmas party back in 1991 that grunge was pretty much here to stay.

Actually, Alex Chilton never really made it above the underground. He was the co-leader of Big Star, the Velvet Underground of the 1970s, af...