I was putting out into the ether not long ago the point of contention I hold wherein I am usually frustrated when people say, "If you l...

Earlier this year, I reached the ten-year anniversary of when I became a semi-official part of the music scene. That prompted some thought a...

For being a year I found rather disappointing for music, the most interesting thing about it is how there are actually fewer outright bad an...

Every year, it feels like this is the hardest thing I have to do. Picking individual songs to represent my feelings on an entire year is dif...

Every year tells a story, whether we want to hear it or not. Sometimes, that story opens our eyes to new worlds, wherein we learn about ours...

 …And then we came to the end.  I won’t waste much column space talking about the struggles of coming up with a best-of albums list for the ...

CHRIS C: This was supposed to be the year everything got back to normal. Perhaps it did, and things seem different once the drama dies down....