The end of another year approaches. I generally don't have much time to listen to music, but this year, somehow (was it the ipod I bough...

It's the nominating season for the Grammy Awards. In the mailboxes of recording academy members like myself, CDs are arriving in droves,...

In 1976, at the beginning of my Junior year of college, I was working at a little desk in the basement of the music department, handing out ...

Edward Albee will moderate while I and all the other creators of dramatic works for Playwrights Horizons will chat. Onstage, with you in the...

When "Two Hands" was released last fall, I hired a radio promoter and sent out hundreds of copies to radio stations all over the c...

...On Off-Broadway! It's official, the musical based on the life story of The Shaggs, "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World", c...

In the fall of 2000, I traveled to Russia to make a documentary film about a farm that my brother had been working at for the previous 5 yea...

I'm alive, baby. I'm vibrating at ultra-high frequencies, even. Below are 4 reasons why you haven't heard from me lately: 1. Re...

I still feel a thrill every time I'm in a recording studio, with the huge consoles full of buttons, the mics, the speakers, the layers o...

Here's a note of thanks for the year just past. Thanks for a son who is insatiably curious and who has a fantastic sense of humor. Thank...

I have always been a closet romantic. I enjoy the sentimental side of things. As a pre-teen, listening to my little panasonic transistor r...

It's been a few years since The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World was produced. The legal problems which held it back were recently lifted...

Here's another video taken from the recording session for "Two Hands". It's not the take that is on the CD (that take was ...

When I was 15, a friend and I worked most of the summer painting my family's house. With the money I earned I bought a reel to reel tape...

Here's something you might not have noticed: All the music on "Two Hands" is in 3/4 time. I didn't really plan it that w...