Putting aside whatever superficial similarities there may be between the two songs, the whole "I waited more than two decades to make an issue out of this because I didn't want to damage my career, and it has nothing at all to do with some recent high-profile plagiarism lawsuits getting my hopes up" story doesn't pass…

This makes me want to see the short film you made. If it were me and a fan came to a show and said, "Hey, here's something I made that I want to share with you," I'd be excited to check it out, and it would make me feel good that someone thought enough of my art to want to share some of theirs with me. People can be…

Somewhere Lou Diamond Phillips is weeping, wondering where it all went wrong. At least Mickey Rourke got to beat the snot out of Enrique Iglesias. Lou was the puppetmaster in the video for "Radioactive". It's a long way from "La Bamba"…

You might like Field Music. Intelligent songwriting with often unpredictable dynamic, melodic, and structural shifts. "Tones of Town" is one of the great sleeper albums.

That's a tough video to watch, because of how obviously ill and gaunt Freddie was by that point. But it's amazing that he allowed himself to be that unguarded. These musical goodbyes are remarkable, painful, beautiful things. Freddie's singing on that album (and on "Mother Love" on "Made in Heaven") is incredible,…

Thanks for that. I keep thinking about how he knew he didn't have a lot of time left, and he knew this was going to be his last statement, and watching the music video for "Lazarus" (which I liked when I first saw it a few days ago, but now I "get" it, and it's incredibly powerful), marveling at how he could have had…

We've been having an unseasonably warm winter in this city. It was a snow-less Christmas. There had been a few of those already, but it never stops feeling wrong somehow. No matter how you feel about snow, seeing untouched grass on the ground on Christmas day is just weird.

I feel the only way to provide a natural segue between the ending of Season 3 and wherever in the story the movie is going to start us off is to use the "previously on Deadwood" device…in the form of an opening blowjob monologue, during which Al gets us up to speed.

I feel the only way to provide a natural segue between the ending of Season 3 and wherever in the story the movie is going to start us off is to use the "previously on Deadwood" device…in the form of an opening blowjob monologue, during which Al gets us up to speed.

From this day forward, I vow to make it my mission in life to find someone willing to have terrible sex with me while we listen to "Flies" in its entirety, as presented on the 1998 Peabody CD reissue. The false starts and disappointments will be many, but I'm confident someday I'll be doing a half-hearted naked mambo…

This is nice to see, but how can any Alex Chilton appreciation be complete without mentioning the great one-two punch of a late 70s single that had "Bangkok" on one side and the man's unhinged cover of The Seeds' "Can't Seem To Make You Mine" on the other? That's essential stuff for anyone interested in who Alex was…

Absolutely. I can understand the contempt and confusion it stirred up in fans who wanted to hear "Radio City Redux", but I think "Flies" is probably about as honest a solo record as Alex ever made. He was a mess at the time, and the album reflects that…but it's a glorious mess. I always thought the title track sounded…

The first half of that album is almost too much. In the first five songs you get one of the best defeated power pop songs of all time ("I Am the Cosmos", with the easy to miss but soul-crushing late-song switch from "really wanna see you again" to "never wanna see you again" and then back again), one of the best…

I'd just like to echo what others have said and concur that this is absolutely the best writing I've ever read on the site. It brings me back to everything I loved about this show when I was watching it during its original broadcast run. Can't wait to read your take on the rest of the show…especially the second…