In honor of Mick Jagger's 78th birthday, classic rock radio will play the same five Rolling Stones songs they would have anyway.

A mixtape of Lindsey Buckingham's extracurricular activities as guitarist, vocalist, accordionist(!), and producer: open.spotify.com/playlist/0dcT2… #spotifymixtape #mixtape #LindseyBuckingham

Unknown Legends (of 20th Century Popular Music): Harvey Mason, Drums Herbie Hancock's HEADHUNTERS, Carole King, Quincy Jones, Seals And Crofts, Foster Sylvers, Gene Harris, The Brothers Johnson, etc. A Spotify mixtape: open.spotify.com/playlist/5eQ8o…

My photos in the Globe for Guerilla Opera’s premiere of ELLIS:

A Kellogg's worker on strike last night holding down the picket line through torrential rain in Omaha, Nebraska via @Kelloggstrike Facebook page

Earliest credited performance of Alice Coltrane (née McLeod) on record: The Premiers' "When You Are In Love" from 1957. youtube.com/watch?v=8JhfSM…

Since it's Opening Day for the @redsox, here are some classic fan interviews from 1988, courtesy of Media Burn Archive and Media Process Group: vimeo.com/695746891

. @WickedpissaJD, circa 1979: youtu.be/8yKBCswdKGU

"Puleng", the elusive, never-turns-up-for-sale 1975 track from The Boyoyo Boys that —*ahem*—'inspired' Malcolm McLaren's "Buffalo Girls", sneaked onto Spotify at some point: open.spotify.com/album/2lv24Rcj…

If we require the 'unusual' in order to be moved to astonishment, we have already lost the ability to respond appropriately to the wonder of Being.

Anything exceptionally good in the realm of what is called art started out feeling humiliating and most people just aren't cut out for that.

now that's a nice cake right there

Bruce Springsteen will never give us the official Nebraska/Electric Nebraska/Born In The USA box set we deserve, but at least it can exist as a playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/4YKAy…