Phil Freeman
One of the most painful truths in American publishing is that genre fiction is better than literary fiction. There are…
The late John Holmes was the only actor who could legitimately claim to be as famous in mainstream society as…
Big Fun is one of the forgotten items in Miles Davis’s discography. Recorded with four different bands (one for each…
The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings suggested reading: Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life (1998), Laurence Bergreen Louis Armstrong,…
The Color Red is a young, up-and-coming rock band whose songs are melodic enough for easy listener access (that is,…
Bad Day At Black Rock, a film which proves that the glaring sun on a baked-dry desert town can provide…
Joe McPhee is, by the evidence presented on this CD, one of the truly great musicians of the postwar era,…
The Nazi slogan “Women must be emancipated from women’s emancipation” appears early in this book, and one can easily see…
The common critical consensus is that the 1970s, particularly the latter half of the decade, were the historical low point…
The New Orleans quintet Eyehategod is one of the most depressed, and depressing, bands in all of rock. Even in…
Tenor saxophonist James Carter has risen to relative prominence in the current "serious" jazz scene; he’s not the name Joshua…
Leni Riefenstahl has created some of the most controversial films and photographs in the history of those forms. Unfortunately, criticism…
At this point, approximately fifty years into its existence, it can be fairly expected that "rock" is not going to…