A few music-related thoughts as we self isolate, elbow bump and search desperately for bathroom tissue during the coronavirus pandemic.

There was still a market for the kind of solid playing and production being made by Bad Company, even amid the rise of punk and new wave.

I think I finally understood David Bowie sometime around Christmas 2019.

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.