May is a tenuous month in the Deep South, where the summer rain hasn't settled in but the heat sure has. It's been obliteratingly hot in Memphis already. The Weather Channel predicts rain every day, but it never actually happens ...

It's time again for the annual tone-setter for my summer: the official summer playlist of 2016. This year, I'm predicting that this summer going to be hot. Like, really hot. And before you give me a gold star for predicting the ...

Thanks to social media and the power of a generation that understands marketing better than any of its predecessors, pop music is free to explore new frontiers. YouTube doesn't pick its pop stars from the Disney Channel, nor do you ...

There's something different about the transition from winter into spring. Instead of just a temperature change, there's also a phoenix-like resurgence of life that is unlike anything else. Cold & dark turns into warm & light, life literally burst out ...