During the 1976-77 academic year, I was a high-school senior in suburban Detroit. My dream was to be a professional rock musician, and I was determined to get the best training I could in preparation ...

I have a complicated relationship with the music of Billy Squier. For better or worse, I grew up listening to “classic rock” radio, so my youthful musical diet consisted of “Fly Like an Eagle” ...

Nobody ever gives Andy Kim any respect. I went to elementary school with a kid named Michael Jackson, and that kid got roasted for his name all time time. (This kid would've been born in 1979 or 1980.