Welcome to the archive site for the stories, columns, original video, audio and music from Smoke Music.... more

I once followed Metallica through a coliseum's fluorescent underground maze to a pitch-black stage.... more

Look backward to the past and events seem to gain speed and inevitability. Observe Tim Buckley and the passing milestones become blurs.... more

Though they were the books of the summer, Jonathan Franzen's Freedom and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad share the dying-light c... more

Spend any summertime in the lowland South and it won’t be long until some Cracker Barrel Confucius allows as how it ain’t the heat, it’s the humidity, yessir, it surely is.... more