Tremble Under Boom Lights

The following email interview was conducted with Butch Lazorchak of the Library of Congress preceding our appearance together on a panel t...

(originally written for and published in the Detroit Metro Times in November 2010 for a list highlighting records in the city's history ...

 When Bob Matheu was putting the above-mentioned book together around four years ago he asked if I would be so kind to contribute a re...

Ben Blackwell - Motor City Blues by Dust & Grooves on Mixcloud Above is my mix based on the wonderful profile Dust and Groove...

I heard a story that Groucho Marx wrote an entire book solely using the morsels of time he had while waiting for his wife to get ready. Whil...

This was pitched as an op/ed for the New York Times and (apparently) they considered it. So forgive the explanations o...

I like the weird records in Detroit history. They are by no means the greatest…but we all know that Motown and techno and the MC5 and St...

Here's a pile of new things currently available for purchase on the mediocre Cass Records label. First off, from New Zealand's Ray...

Interview with a Teenager I had the pleasure of typing back and forth with a journalism-minded teenager from the Detroit area not too long...

Here are my liner notes for the Raconteurs "Live at Montreux" DVD. I figure no one is crazy enough to buy the whole thing just t...

I wrote this nine years ago for a website called Swizzle Stick that seems to be long gone. Today seemed like one of those perfect limbo pre-...

1. I'd never seen the Atlantic promo sleeve with the MC5 pic on it before. Strangely enough it's a photo from the band's time on...