All Shaggs, all the time... Here's a great little video for those of you who can't make it to NY for the show. Enjoy! In case...

Dear Friends, We're now in our 2nd week of previews, and the show is coming together nicely. Spectacularly. We spend time every day w...

(The Shaggs open May 12! Click for tix) The first time I ever touched an electric guitar, I was awestruck. I tried plucking a note, tried ...

Greetings from NYC, Tickets are on sale for the upcoming production of The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World at Playwrights Horizons on 42nd...

Dear friends, I've been meaning to write for the longest time, but I've been consumed with preparations for the Off-Broadway produ...

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...