It speaks for the romantic, the idealist, the lover, the hopeless (or hopeful) devotee, the Icarus, the Abelard in us all.

No one had ever offered to fill an iPod up with legal music, at a realistic price. Now someone has.

Stardate 1984: I'm just out of college. Still wearing my Ronald Reagan protest beard.

It's about love - its presence, its absence, the troubles it makes for us and the rescues it alone can effect.

A fine-sounding and lovingly presented encapsulation of rock's greatest improvisational band at their earliest peak.

Seriously good music for grown-ups.

We have a plant growing in our kitchen. Not a houseplant in a pot (we’ve never had much luck with those). It’s a weed, growing up through a gap between the linoleum tile and the painted wooden molding. We’re pretty messy people, and our somewhat decrepit kitchen never really gets …

The outcome of Shakespeare's battle of the sexes is not so much reversed as made a fairer fight.

It's fair to ask if we really need another song about a man who can't commit.

Bob Dylan’s songs are so universal and brilliant that they stand up to a seemingly endless variety of treatments. Jerry Garcia‘s Dylan interpretations, however, are unusual in that they pair two equally iconic and influential musical sensibilities. Garcia’s fluid and imaginative guitar pushes up fresh, unexpected blossoms in Dylan’s compositional …