For the average music listener in America, familiarity with Nick Lowe and his music begins and often ends with his 1979 song “Cruel To Be Kind” and its accompanying video, ubiquitously played on the ...

Extended as is Joe Marchese's essay in the twelve-page booklet enclosed with Swan Songs, it is nonetheless as breezy and free-flowing as the content spread across the two compact discs. Consisting of ...

Most of the books I read for this column I'd gladly — given unlimited time — read on my own. But I don't take my access to this space as a license to force enthusiasms on you. (Well, not every week.) ...