William S. Burroughs

Candiria and Kayo Dot are two of the best underground bands you've probably never heard of. Read More

This documentary by Augusta Palmer, about her father—the rock critic Robert Palmer, who died in 1997, at the age of fifty-two—is anchored by his devotion to the Master Musicians of Jajouka, a legendary group of Sufi trance musicians who were famously associated with Beat writers (including William S. Burroughs) and such rock acts as the Rolling Stones. Read More

Music critics' lives — a blur of deadlines, headphone cords and modest payments by the word — don't often inspire much fascination. Read More

Music critics' lives — a blur of deadlines, headphone cords and modest payments by the word — don't often inspire much fascination. Read More

Something about the name Emily Rodgers combined with the Renaissance-style painting of a woman on the cover will lead people to believe that "Bright Day" is a simple folk album. Read More

He got a ride down Highway 1 past swishing seashores splish splashing and past redwood trees quietly meditating to Bixby Canyon where a bridge was stretched out like a spider web over a deep ravine – In the canyon, where a creek gurgled like an old man gargling and wrecks from the road above sat in the vegetation like twisted puzzle pieces, the so-called King of the Beats went lights-out crazy and wrote his 1962 novel Big Sur in the creepy crawly cabin that belonged to his friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Read More

Something about the name Emily Rodgers combined with the Renaissance-style painting of a woman on the cover will lead people to believe that "Bright Day" is a simple folk album. Read More