Year of the Month: “Home At Last”? Steely Dan Arrives on AJA
In 1977, the musical world at large finally caught up with Steely Dan. Up until…
Loser’s Debut: Persia on CAN’T BUY A THRILL
Believe it or not, I’ve never smoked pot. I didn’t have a cool stoner uncle…
Year of the Month: “Well by Seventy-Six We’ll Be A-OK” – The Cool Retro-Future of THE NIGHTFLY
Conspicuously absent from the first post-Steely Dan release from Donald Fagen is the cutting mockery…
Year of the Month: Watching THE NEW AGE from the Point of No Return
There may be no better time to rediscover The New Age. It takes dead aim…
Year of the Month: Randy Newman, TROUBLE IN PARADISE
It’s hard not to have heard the opening track, “I Love L.A.,” which has become…
Re-Viewing 1980s U.S. Films – Part 2: ONE FROM THE HEART
If there is one piece of received thinking about film that ought to be challenged,…