The Curmudgeon Awakes! Wait, it’s already February?!  The Curmudgeon snarls, turns around three times, and falls back asleep.

Only time will tell how the last year will fare in my personal pop music canon.  I saw only a fraction of live shows that I did in previous years. And whether it was my own [...]

I don’t know if Jim White has seen the devil (if you read the story included in his Wrong-Eyed Jesus liner notes he’s at least met someone pretty close) but he seems to write from the vantage of an existential crossroads. A place, in his world, where the path to righteousness and the [...]

Melting ice caps, violent international conflicts, Hummers outside my window, oil slicks in the bay – the picture of 2007 as I look back was of a dissonant world. The records that fought their way to the fore sounded like allegories for this dystopian vision. Noisy, messy, strange but headspinningly beautiful. Interestingly, each [...]