STYLO Howard Stern must have been in reruns, because I was pushing the buttons on the satellite and I heard this track on the Spectrum. I was entranced and transported, lifted from the cabin of my car into the stratosphere, I immediately came home and dialed up this Gorillaz track. I didn’t think I liked […]

My mother had a two-tone Maxima, light and dark blue. It replaced the five cylinder Audi which was a great car when it ran right, which was rarely. Only buy Japanese cars. Unless you’re rich, or leasing, or both. And it was in this car I found myself driving on Route 7 from Middlebury to […]

“Juliette” This was the first track I got. I bought “Dixie Chicken” based on a review and played it twice through and was flummoxed until this track, the second to last on the album, emerged. “Juliette” is sweet and subtle, in a world inundated with these qualities, which are absent from the hit parade. Think […]

I started with “Dixie Chicken.” It was the reviews and the song on the Warner Brothers sampler. And it took me a hell of a long time to get into it, to understand its understated magic. If you can put Patti Smith in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and not Lowell George, I […]