August 24, 2018
LISTEN: A special podcast episode remembering Queen of Soul — and Detroiter — Aretha Franklin
Upon hearing the news last week that Aretha Franklin had died at age 76, following a battle with pancreatic cancer,...
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April 22, 2016
Dearly beloved, Prince has left us
The whole world is reeling from the news that Prince, the prolific, creative dynamo who arrived in this world like...
March 23, 2016
My music icons keep falling: A tribute to Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest
I need to say a few words about the fallen music icon du jour, Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called...
January 30, 2016
Paul Kantner was a founding member of Jefferson Airplane — and an unrepentant freak
It’s strange to keep writing tribute posts to my favorite fallen rock legends, but here we are: The old guard...
January 11, 2016
A tribute to the brilliant sound and vision of David Bowie
David Bowie spent the past year or so working on his 25th album, Blackstar, which he released Friday, the day...
December 30, 2015
5 songs that aren’t ‘Ace of Spades’ to play loud to honor Lemmy
Nearly five years ago, my very pregnant wife and I went to a midweek brew-and-view screening of Lemmy, the documentary...
November 12, 2015
Happy 70th birthday to Neil Young, a true Canadian original and rock-n-roll god
Way back in college, when I first discovered his catalog in earnest, a musician friend remarked to me that “Neil...
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