Maybe Taylor Jenkins Reid’s ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ isn’t about rock ‘n’ roll at all. Maybe it’s more about love, and who you love and how you choose to love them.

Here’s a Best of 2019 list featuring favorites from this year’s new releases – along with some albums that were just new to me.

Or: The Dangers of a Self-Education in Popular Culture.

These bands can all rock as hard as any other band from any other place, which shows that maybe the importance of location isn’t such a big deal anymore.

Problem: There isn’t any consensus as to what exactly constitutes a rock ‘n’ roll movie.

Songs about brain power by Metallica, Ramones, Elvis Presley and others square off in a new edition of JC Mosquito’s Odd Couples.

Albums by Paul Rodgers, Jethro Tull and Journey have become unjustly forgotten in the collective memory.

The Bangles join with their spiritual siblings in the Three O’Clock, the Dream Syndicate and Rain Parade to release a unique project.

Bands with animal-based names square off for this edition of Odd Couples, including T. Rex, the Monkees, Tame Impala, Whitesnake, Toto and others.

Music made when groups are in a state of flux can be pretty good too.