Carpe Diem – by RexT

Carpe Diem is my latest completed song. It has been a work in progress that started like many of my songs, just strumming around on my acoustic guitar looking for a melody. Once I had the melody, some lyrics came along and jumped in. (Lyrics do that you know, they hear a melody they like [...]

JoonToons – by Dylan Foley

Dylan Foley is an atheist/skeptic/humanist musician and author based out of Boston, Massachusetts who is involved in a myriad of projects ranging from gypsy jazz/ska/circus rock to free improvisation to surf to death metal. “JoonToons”, his latest solo project, is an album of children’s music designed to appeal to people of all ages. The songs [...]

Book Review: Oliver Sacks’ “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain” – by Don Alhambra

Neurologist Oliver Sacks is well known for his ability to write about case histories in his own compelling lyrical style. Probably his most famous work is his 1989 book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a fascinating and seminal exploration of the weird world of neurology. Drawing on his clinical experience with [...]

Melody Febble – by RexT

“Melody Febble” is my most recent tune, an instrumental much inspired by RnR’s very own Febble, (a.k.a. Lizzie) a very talented classical musician. Febble is an exceptionally calm and gentle person. I have come to admire her greatly. She sent me a piece of her own music and suddenly a piece I had been playing [...]

In the Nuthouse – by Kim o the Concrete Jungle

In the Nuthouse is one of my very early songs. I wrote it when I was seventeen. I’d been playing guitar for about a year, and was just starting to get on top of it. (In fact, I was probably over-compensating, playing too fast to make up for my lack of technical skill.) Now when [...]