Burner Herzog, courtesy Martin Bisi. For tens of thousands of years before Sigmund Freud and the advent of modern psychology, human beings struggled to maintain their sanity with the help of art and religion. This year Burner Herzog‘s latest album, Random Person, got me through some rough months. Like…

Last month music school grad student and YouTuber Adam Neely released a video he titled “Is Music Theory Racist?” Quickly renamed “Music Theory and White Supremacy,” Neely’s video followed some controversy within the insular world of music schools after a symposium talk by Philip Ewell, an associate professor of music…

In May of 1965 The Rolling Stones were recording at RCA Studios in Hollywood. Keith Richards needed to record a horn line but didn’t have a horn player booked for the session. So Richards grabbed his Maestro Fuzzbox, Gibson Guitars’ first “stomp box,” a small pedal with a circuit…