(La) luna

What more can be said about the genius of Neil Young?

"I've been driftin' like a dream out on the sea; I've been driftin' in between what used to be." 1969 was a pivo...

"No girl I've loved has ever held me down. No reason can I give for leaving this town. My love is true now, my love is true, but t...

While all the headlines are going on about the death of Steve Jobs, today saw another death that is far more significant to me- perhaps the ...

"There ain't no wealth that can buy my pride. There ain't no pain that can cleanse my soul." Following the release of wh...

Peter Hammill, who was a key member of the seminal Art-Rock group Van der Graaf Generator, is a recent obsession of mine. There are few thin...

"How can my giving find the rhythm and time of you, unless you sing your song to me? " Lee Underwood: "Right from the begin...

"Oh, when I get to thinkin' 'bout the old days when love was here to stay, I wonder if we ever tried. Oh, what I'd give to...

Any other Mark Lanegan or Screaming Trees fans out there?

"Just like a buzzin' fly, I come into your life. Now I float away like honey in the sun." Recorded during the same tour that...

Here's a warm-up for some Soft Boys just around the corner:

Amazing footage of Lou doing "Berlin" during a Velvets re-union of sorts. And in case you're curious, yes, that's Nico in ...

Gil Scott-Heron died today. I'm feeling pretty much speechless right now

"The singer cries for people's lies. He will sing for the day to bring him night." Tim Buckley was one of those musicians wh...

"If you tell me a lie, I'll cry for you, or tell me of sin and I'll laugh." At the risk of sounding as if I'm lapsin...

"What about me, me and my kind? If we're unknown, are we left behind?" All it takes is one comparative listen between Fairpo...

This is one of Tim Buckley's finest moments- an early acoustic rendition of "Song to the Siren," which many of you will know f...

"If only you had told her the words to unfold her long ago." During Portishead's interminably mysterious ten year hiatus, Be...

"It's just the wasted years so close behind." Although it is rarely mentioned, the thriving underground music scene in Athen...

You know a band is talented when a singer like J. Tillman can be relegated to drums: