Music

Mark Steyn on "popular" culture and music “Popular culture” is more accurately a “present-tense culture”: You’re celebrating the millennium but you can barely conceive of anything before the mid-1960s. We’re at school longer than any society in human history, entering kindergarten at four or five and leaving college the best part of a quarter-century later—or Read more

The wife and I just got back from the monthly big band dance at Fritzi’s Blue Bubble Ballroom. Those old warhorses, the Paul Elizondo Band, were playing up a storm–they play great Latin stuff, but Paul obviously never tried to dance to any of his swing or ballroom stuff (Paul–synchonize your metronome!). However, we were Read more

Unless you have reservations for the May 8 performance of Simplemente Lara at the Jump Start Theater, you’ve missed out on some wonderful Mexican popular music. Jose Ruben de Leon sings darn close to the original Augustin Lara, and Aaron Prado (yes, the KRTU music director) is note-perfect on the piano. Aaron’s dad, George Prado Read more