There's no shame in making a mistake. In fact, I'm convinced that mistakes teach us more than getting things right ever could. Mistakes are seared in our minds, helping us map out a better way to do ...

In September of 1992, I bought my first two CDs. One was Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys, and the other was the Singles soundtrack. I was 14 years old. Yesterday, I bought six more CDs — mostly ...

The first $10 to ever burn a hole in my pocket went directly to my first CD purchase. It was in a lowly Walmart, of all places. The album: “Morning View,” by Incubus, a band I’d recently heard rocking ...

Kylie Minogue is not consigned to the past, even if it is nearing four decades since her breakout 80s track, The Loco-Motion. Alongside – oddly – Elvis Presley, Kylie’s 2001 album Fever, with Love At ...

I spent this past Friday the way I spent most of my weekends, home alone, trading out the damaged jewel cases of my CD collection for smooth, unblemished new ones, and telling my beautiful collection ...