Tim Buckley

Out There

Thalia Zedek

Been Here and Gone (Matador)

Starsailor

Love is Here (Capitol)

Robert Plant

Dreamland (Universal)

Happy Accidents

Richard Buckner makes room in his pickup for indie-rock friends but not songwriters

Half Lit

Richard Swift takes a Novelist approach to the singer-songwriter genre

The Beatdown

Ben Watt lights up the DJ world with his tech-pop legacy

Off Camera

For Califone's Tim Rutili, there's no difference between a picture and a thousand words

Amazing grace

Three years after his death, Jeff Buckley continues to build a mystery with a new live collection

Son rise

Julian Lennon knows he sounds like his dad, thanks very much

The enchanted forest

Carl Stephenson on Beck, the Geto Boys, trip-hop, and the fine line between dream and reality

He wants to freak you

Jeff Buckley tries to make pop music you've never heard before

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Frampton Comes Alive on KZEW on July 4, 1975

​It's perhaps the most common request among the Friends of Unfair Park: Where oh where is Peter Frampton's January Sound Studios sessions, which aired on KZEW back in February of '75? The complete show too -- not just "Do You Feel Like I Do," the version of which hopped to the top of the local pop ... More >>

Bass Great Chuck Rainey, the Soul of Steely Dan, Is Recovering in Bedford Following a Stroke

​An old friend who knows of my lifelong love affair with Steely Dan sends this note I somehow managed to miss: Chuck Rainey, the band's more-or-less bassist from Pretzel Logic in '74 to Gaucho six years later, suffered a stroke Friday night. Susan Rainey, the second Mrs., writes on the official we ... More >>