After many false starts over many years, I made an earnest attempt during the pandemic at telling the story of a pivotal period in my early 20s that changed my life.
Last Friday, I was puttering away in my new office space in Rockefeller Center, getting ready to call it a day and head home for the weekend. Then…
After incredible releases from the Propellerheads and Madonna earlier that year, it was as if Massive Attack was the third in a 1998 electronica trilogy.
In the pantheon of great debut rock albums, the Pretenders blew out of the gate and set a high bar.
An alien transmission at the dawn of New Wave…
One of the first compact discs I ever bought was Pink Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece The Dark Side of the Moon. My sister had it on vinyl and I always loved the sound of it even as a little kid.