Chuck Berry

Shock The Monkey: A Playlist To Help Ease Kirk Cameron's Evolutionary Growing Pains

David Wild | Posted 11.22.2009 | Entertainment


David Wild

Kirk Cameron seems like a really nice guy. Unfortunately, the Artist Formerly Known as Mike Seaver seems like a really nice guy who's evolved into a willfully ignorant idiot.

The King of Pop (and Heartbreak)

Giles Slade | Posted 07.27.2009 | Entertainment


Giles Slade

I played along too when she listened to Michael Jackson even though my tastes tended towards Keith Jarrett's lonely intensity. She gave me a mix-tape of Jacko. I was transformed.

Rock Band, Guitar Hero: Murdering Musical Taste

Marshall Fine | Posted 03.30.2009 | Entertainment


Marshall Fine

It's bad enough that so-called classic-rock stations clog the airwaves with the worst of the 70s and 80s, but to have the videogame industry spoon-feeding it to a generation that doesn't know better is too much.

Review: David Foster's Hit Man -- Star Gazing in the Recording Studio

Charles Alexander | Posted 01.02.2009 | Media


Charles Alexander

Since Foster, unlike many musicians, never got into drugs, he actually remembers everything that happened. Example: what was Madonna doing lying on the floor of a recording booth moaning?

Beyonce Sings Etta James? Maybe. Etta James Singing Etta James? Now We're Talking Immortal.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 01.01.2009 | Entertainment


Jesse Kornbluth

Whatever your opinion of that star turn, I'm still beating a drum for the idea of the film -- Etta James should be at least as well known as Aretha Franklin.

The Price of Oil, July 4th, and Chuck Berry

Jackson Williams | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics


Jackson Williams

Messing with the caribou does nothing to alter our energy plight, now or in the future, and shame on politicians who suggest otherwise to frustrated constituents.