Last night's episode of Law and Order: SVU featured Ice-T's character Fin holding a cinnamon raisin bagel, and today several of his Twitter followers raised the important question, why cinnamon raisin? Ice-T explained that's how the writers wrote the scene, then dropped the following revelation: "I’ve never eaten a Bagel in my life." People were pretty shocked! Bagel truthers slammed Ice-T's...

Summer 1968 was a transitional time for Van Morrison. Recently departed from his garage rock band Them and unsatisfied with the release of his debut solo album Blowin' Your Mind, he was determined to move his music from the peppy pop of "Brown Eyed Girl" to someplace deeper. He was briefly living in the Boston area, where he conceived of the mystical blend of soul, jazz, folk, and Celtic music that...

As leader of Wilco and onetime member of Uncle Tupelo, Jeff Tweedy has written dozens of great songs in his 51 years on Earth. Not among them, however, is a tightly-wound soul workout called "10th Avenue Freeze-Out," nor a starry-eyed Bo Diddley homage called "She's the One," nor a scraggly gangland epic called "Jungleland," no matter what Tweedy wanted his third-grade classmates to believe. According...