Boogie Woogie Flu

Rest in Peace, Boogie. "My Next Door Neighbor" mp3 by Jerry McCain and His Upstarts, 1957. available on Excello Blues: House Rock...

Today is the second anniversary of Alex Chilton's untimely passing. Last year I posted a handful of the records that Alex covered. T...

Folks, I'm thrilled to announce that I'm now doing a weekly show on WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban . It streams to your...

by Polly Bresnick Etta James, who passed away last week, could not only sing with searing soul that simultaneously strikes fear and sorrow a...

Today we celebrate five years of the Boogie Woogie Flu, and while this strange endeavor may be limping along at a limited capacity, we are, ...

by Andy Schwartz When Howard Tate died on December 2, 2011, most obituaries for the great soul singer mentioned the name of another man who’...

by Dave the Spazz “Don’t ever let them operate on your back. That’s how we lost Jeff Chandler.” --Don Van Vliet 1 Today’s Hanukkah’s Jew ans...

by Nicole Audrey Spector How a guy who once pulled over the car upon espying a black glitter rosary on my neck (I was 12 and the rosary was ...

by Polly Bresnick I'm half Jewish, half Christmas. Jew-ISH. My family lights the menorah when we remember to, usually uncertain of which...

by Ariella Stok It was a classically Semitic combination of chutzpah and horniness that led Lawrence Ira Kahn, a white Jewish kid from Brown...