Subject: Brill Building

• Top 10 Reissues of 2008

  It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" and "Anthony's Song (Movin' Out)" remain priceless snapshots of Annie Hall-era NYC, the title track bares real teeth, and the Kenny Chesney fave "Only the Good Die Young"

  December 23, 2008

• Sale Away

  October 2, 1991

• Diamond is Forever

  February 17, 1993

• Top Classic Albums of 2008

  January 1, 2009

• Pop, Into Your Head

  Daniel René, local boy and former member of Menudo, grows into adult success.

  December 27, 2007

• The Postmarks Always Sing Twice

  April 5, 2007

• Mini Fest, Big Movies

  August 3, 2006

• Chico Is the Man

  December 16, 1999

• Song Sung Goo

  December 17, 1998

• Puff Goes the Weasel

  November 6, 1997

• The More You Pander, the Blander

  June 26, 1997

• Solid As a Rock

  September 19, 1996

• New WLRN ArtStreet Segment on Honor Roll Music

  Thanks to an infusion of younger blood (namely in the form of new and youthful producer Andrew Hevia), WLRN TV is getting on board the newfangled YouTube thing and putting some of its programming online. Yay. So if you missed its original air date earlier this week, check out this segment from the locally oriented show ArtStreet. The focus here is Honor Roll Music, and the story paints founders Nick Scapa and J. Read Fasse as the svengalis of a sort of modern-day Brill Building, updated with

  May 21, 2009