A few nights ago, while rotting with a watery Bombay and tonic in the crypt-like back corner of the dreadfully skeevy Lit Lounge, a musician friend went on a small tirade about hearing a feature on M. Ward on public radio that day. Much to my amusement — as this friend doesn't follow "indie" m...

A fabulous, very satisfying all-island episode 5.8 of Lost tonight - one of the best Sawyer episodes, and, for that matter, one of the best Lost episodes of all time, also. Speaking of which - time - Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Faraday, and Jin are back in the 1970s, and the island has stopped skipping, ...

The rumors were fast and furious. Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones were mentioned. I even heard Ozzy Osbourne, although that may have been a town local toying with me. The occasion? 50 Winters Later, a special concert honoring the legacy of Buddy Holly, Ritchie ...

"No one will ever do what he did. Sure, there are imitators -- he's very easy to imitate. But no one can do it with that purity and innocence anymore. There will always have to be a layer of irony or allusion." Jac has 5 videos by artists in the Buddy Holly "nerd rocker" tradition. He wouldn't add a...

It was on this date this week in 1959, that the plane carrying Charles H. "Buddy" Holly, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens as well as the pilot Roger Peterson will were all killed in a plane crash due to foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa. The plane known as "The Bonanza" was ...

Guiding hipsters' fashion sensibilities even in death. I gotta find me a pair of those wingtop wayfarers man, shit. Today's biggest news item: not the fact that Buddy Holly died 50 years ago today, but that "the music" is bigger, better, more diverse, and still evolving. So what the hell was Don McL...

I feel as though I "knew" Buddy Holly. I've owned and listened to his songs by him and the Crickets LINK and also through the cover versions by the Beatles (Words of Love), Linda Ronstadt and lots of others. Little wonder that Paul McCartney snatched up the rights to Buddy's songs. I also saw the Th...

On the 50th anniversary of his death we trace Buddy Holly's posthumous ascent from boy next door to rock and roll's first real artist....

This is the week that was in matters musical … 1956, The Coasters are signed to Atlantic records … the doo-wop act goes on to score 19 hits in the ensuing 15 years including such novelty smashes as "Charlie Brown" and "Poison Ivy" … 1958, The Champs release &...

This is the week that was in matters musical … 1956, Buddy Holly records for the first time for Decca at a session in Nashville … Elvis Presley makes his national television debut on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show singing “Heartbreak Hotel” … 1959, armed with naught ...