A dispatch from one rager during last week’s Little 5 celebrations:
“They’re nice guys, they’re very nice guys. They’re just trying to help us out,” Kaelan said of the officers.
The crowd clapped.
“I am a little upset that we can’t get to the polka dot bikini girl contest, but can you come back for [...]

Here we have a 20-year old Bob Dylan–who’d just made his way to Greenwich Village to make a name for himself–sitting for an extended interview with New York radio host Cynthia Gooding and playing several songs to boot. Throughout the hour-long program, he’s affable if not a bit shy, denying the “folk” tag, which he [...]

The clip, recorded live on SNL in 1977, that forever linked Costello with “punk”. It’s a great act of defiance–apparently of Lorne Michaels, who wanted to keep the irreverence and commentary limited to Chevy Chase falling off ladders as Gerald Ford. It’s a snarling performance, and when I hear that organ loudly kick [...]

I had a record number of replies for Volume II of the Cover Mix Contest, but only one got every track properly identified, with song titles and both artists. It’s also totally unfair, because the winner is Brian Ibbott, the proprietor of The Cover Song Podcast at Coverville.com. Now, to be fair, I didn’t issue [...]

A few years back, I was able to attend a screening of Larry Charles’ polarizing Bob Dylan paean Masked and Anonymous, and I was amused during the ensuing question and answer session at the director’s cavalier, almost to the point of laughing, attitude toward the majority of the audience that were completely baffled at the [...]

Ah, it’s refreshing to know that the next step in Bob Dylan’s never-ending career will see him coming full-circle, back to the coffeehouses at which he began, 40-ish years ago, in Greenwich Village. Only this time, in a sublime example of corporate irony, he’ll be sponsored by multinational adult-contemporary beverage provider Starbucks, who’ve managed to [...]