From the Desk of Lou Waxman

Jimmy Buffett Songs You Know By Heart

Jimmy Buffett Songs You Know By Heart

Lou may have mentioned before in a previous post (Lou is presently hungover and cannot muster the energy to look it up), there are certain musicians and bands where you...

Jimmy Buffett Songs You Know By Heart

Lou may have mentioned before in a previous post (Lou is presently hungover and cannot muster the energy to look it up), there are certain musicians and bands where you...

Warm Leatherette, Grace Jones, and the Art of the Beautiful Crash

Warm Leatherette, Grace Jones, and the Art of t...

A copy of Grace Jones’s Warm Leatherette rolls into the Vogue and Lou traces the song’s strange lineage from J.G. Ballard’s transgressive novel Crash through Daniel Miller’s stark electronica, Cronenberg’s...

Warm Leatherette, Grace Jones, and the Art of t...

A copy of Grace Jones’s Warm Leatherette rolls into the Vogue and Lou traces the song’s strange lineage from J.G. Ballard’s transgressive novel Crash through Daniel Miller’s stark electronica, Cronenberg’s...

Highway to Hell: AC/DC, Bon Scott, the Night Stalker, and a City Under Siege

Highway to Hell: AC/DC, Bon Scott, the Night St...

A beat-up copy of AC/DC’s Highway to Hell rolls into the Vogue and Lou goes deep on the album that made the band and buried its singer. From Bon Scott’s...

Highway to Hell: AC/DC, Bon Scott, the Night St...

A beat-up copy of AC/DC’s Highway to Hell rolls into the Vogue and Lou goes deep on the album that made the band and buried its singer. From Bon Scott’s...

Love or Something Like It: Kenny Rogers, Roasted Chicken, and Lou’s Crisis of Conscience

Love or Something Like It: Kenny Rogers, Roaste...

Lou pulls Kenny Rogers’ Love or Something Like It from the bins and can’t decide whether to laugh or feel deeply seen. What starts as a gentle roasting of Kenny...

Love or Something Like It: Kenny Rogers, Roaste...

Lou pulls Kenny Rogers’ Love or Something Like It from the bins and can’t decide whether to laugh or feel deeply seen. What starts as a gentle roasting of Kenny...

Daddy Cool Teenage Heaven original Australian pressing vinyl LP album cover 1972

Daddy Cool, the Australian Invasion, and Why El...

Lou picks up Daddy Cool's Teenage Heaven hoping for something filthy and gets polished Australian doo-wop instead. The disappointment launches a sprawling, affectionate tour through the entire Australian Invasion of...

Daddy Cool, the Australian Invasion, and Why El...

Lou picks up Daddy Cool's Teenage Heaven hoping for something filthy and gets polished Australian doo-wop instead. The disappointment launches a sprawling, affectionate tour through the entire Australian Invasion of...

The Breakfast Club original motion picture soundtrack vinyl LP album cover 1985

Don't You (Forget About Me): Lou Rewatches The ...

Matt hands Lou the Breakfast Club soundtrack and Lou is not impressed — four instrumentals, a pile of filler, and one undeniable banger holding the whole thing together. But the...

Don't You (Forget About Me): Lou Rewatches The ...

Matt hands Lou the Breakfast Club soundtrack and Lou is not impressed — four instrumentals, a pile of filler, and one undeniable banger holding the whole thing together. But the...