ARTICLES (for the weekend)

“I take refuge,” Tom Stoppard once remarked, “in the fact that I can’t change anything by agonizing about it, so I don’t”...

Tom Waits is the epitome of cool.

The music website everyone loves to hate, but that I still read almost every day.

The Sports Guy has started to perfect his style.

I am in last place in both of my hockey pools. Last place.

Just in time for the holidays, Caldo Verde Records will release a limited edition (10,000 North America), 20-song, live compilation from Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon songwriter Mark Kozelek. Little Drummer Boy Live was recorded during Kozelek's European and North American performances this past year. The double-CD encompasses Kozelek's entire career, including selections from his early days in Red House Painters ("Katy Song," "Bubble), Old Roman-era ("Void," "Cruiser"), and Sun Kil Moon ("Salvador Sanchez," "Duk Koo Kim") as well as personalized covers of Modest Mouse, Cars, and AC/DC, and two previously unreleased tracks.