essay Archive
09 Feb 2024
Take Five: Ozzy in the Eighties
After nearly a decade fronting metal pioneers Black Sabbath, singer Ozzy Osbourne was dismissed from the band he co-founded. But after a period in which he (more or less) got […]
04 Feb 2024
Kesha’s Journey from ‘Animal’ to ‘Only Love’ (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… Less than a year and a half later, Kesha released High Road, her fourth studio album. Focusing more than its predecessor upon classic rock, country and […]
03 Feb 2024
Kesha’s Journey from ‘Animal’ to ‘Only Love’ (Part 1 of 2)
Starting out as a pop singer with a savvy sense of the zeitgeist, over the course of more than a decade in the public eye, Kesha (formerly Ke$ha) has grown […]
25 Jan 2024
Take Five: Outside-the-box Paul McCartney Tracks
If Paul McCartney isn’t the greatest songwriter who has ever lived, he’s right up near the top of the list. Continuing his prolific output right into his 81st year, McCartney […]
06 Jan 2024
Take Five: Keith Emerson
Classically trained pianist Keith Emerson is best known for the boundary-pushing progressive rock he made with Greg Lake and Carl Palmer as ELP. But Emerson – who left us in […]
31 Dec 2023
Musoscribe’s Most Popular
Perhaps remarkably, a look at the stats for blog.musoscribe.com shows that the most popular (as in, most-read) stories this past year are things I wrote years – sometimes many years […]
28 Dec 2023
The Beatles, Bootlegs, Artificial Intelligence and ‘Rockin’ Roxburgh’
I’m a lifelong Beatles fan. I discovered Meet the Beatles in my parents’ otherwise kinda-square record collection and was knocked out. That would have been in the late ‘60s, right […]
24 Dec 2023
Take 5: Gregg Alexander
New Radicals’ 1998 single “You Get What You Give” was a major hit in three countries (U.S. #36, Canada #1, UK #5), and it charted in several others. Led by […]
17 Dec 2023
Take Five: David Bowie’s Pin Ups
By late 1973 David Bowie was at the top of his game. Riding high on the success of a string of albums – 1971’s Hunky Dory, 1972’s The Rise and […]
10 Dec 2023
Elton John: Beyond the ‘Yellow Brick Road’
Elton John released his landmark double album on October 5, 1973: fifty years ago. Elton’s seventh album, the blockbuster LP was stuffed to the brim with top-quality songs, all from […]