* * * *1/2 Combustible Edison, The Impossible World (Sub Pop): Swing has supplanted lounge music as the popular alternative to alternative rock. But although the lounge revival proved fairly ...

Ten or twelve years ago, lounge music was just a cheap laugh. But there was a revolution fomenting in all those swank martini glasses, and after grunge sandpapered the airwaves, America was ready to ...

I was in Boston a couple of months back, attending the Boston Cocktail Summit. It was a grand affair that culminated, from my point of view, in me being roasted, Friars Club-style, by some of my best ...