Michael Olivas, Law of Rock and Roll Professor

Fortified with New Mexican dinner from Frontier, across from the UNM campus... Download PDF File

What perfect timing to share this information about the 50 years of Van and Bang... Download PDF File

Among the hundreds of concerts I have attended since I was a kid, none have been football-field sized... Download PDF File

I was saddened to read of the death of Gregg Allman at the age of 69... Download PDF File

Among the hundreds of concerts I have attended since I was a kid, none have been football-field sized. Download PDF File

We attended the May 12 Brian Wilson concert at the Houston... Download PDF File

My Aging Rock Fans Still Hold Their Lighters High Follow up and Correcting the Record.... Download PDF File

When I was growing up in New Mexico, every local high school band played a repertoire of three or four songs: “Satisfaction,” “Gloria,” any Buddy Holly song, and “Angel Baby” or a Brenda Lee song for the slow dance... Download PDF File

heard from about a dozen of you last night and this morning, as soon as you heard that Chuck Berry had died... Download PDF File

Last night, Tina and I went to see Justin Hayward, lead singer and major songwriter of The Moody Blues, at the Heights, a recently-renovated venue in Houston... Download PDF File

Due to the schedule I keep these days, I know I have been sporadic in my Posse Postings, but it is not because you are far from my mind... Download PDF File

I have been deluged with calls, emails, and texts, and have been hiding in plain sight. But one of the ways I work things out is to write, and so I have put this piece together, as a means of expiating my own grief. Each of us will have to work out our own important coping with this turn of events... Download PDF File

These days, there is more material and less time, so I will occasionally just forward stuff while it is hot... Download PDF File

I know, I know, I have been lying low for a bit, but I swear it is only because I am so slammed with my UHD duties that leave me so little time to catch up, especially as the new school year started... Download PDF File

Prince's only full-relative, his sister, filed court papers to establish that he died intestate and to have a master appointed to administer the complex affairs... Download PDF File

How to memorialize the remarkable life that was Prince—entertainer, fashion icon, gender-bending trendsetter, movie star and producer, record producer, and business man? Download PDF File

Several observant members of the Posse passed this Adam Liptak piece on to me. Because my recent (2015) radio show on the subject coincided with the death of Justice Scalia, I thought I would pass it on, inasmuch as I mentioned him here. The Class is copyrighted, and not for distribution... Download PDF File

I share the befuddlement voiced here by Timothy Egan in considering which obituaries to share with you, especially after the three he mentions (plus Natalie Cole) that I wrote about recently... Download PDF File

I have a friend who conducts research on Latino WWII veteranos... Download PDF File

In a recent Posse Posting, a review of “The 33,” the movie about the Chilean mining collapse... Download PDF File

Tina and I were in NYC for the recent Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, and stayed a few days... Download PDF File

P. F. Sloan wrote and Barry McGuire performed “Eve of Destruction” and made an important protest song statement in 1965... Download PDF File

Invoking the time of year, I would note: ‘Tis the season for suing presidential campaigns. And the more the merrier, all lawprofs and entertainment lawyers say??!! Or, as Ludacris would say, Ho, Ho, Ho... Download PDF File