Archive for 2015/11


Pandora/Rdio

You’re just a pawn in their game. You think by protesting freemium you’re saving the world from broke musicians. But Wall Street talks and you walk, and it all comes down to money. And those with the deep pockets are playing for high stakes and they don’t care about what’s happening in your bedroom, the […]

Summit At Sea

This was not a music industry conference. There were no bands charged a fee to perform to no one despite believing this was their one big break. There were no secondary characters testifying about that which they had no contact with. This was a blue chip group of people listening to household names. Like Travis […]

My Favorite Allen Toussaint Covers

ON YOUR WAY DOWN Little Feat The same dudes you misuse on your way up You might meet up On your way down I bought “Dixie Chicken” because of incredible reviews. And when I broke the shrinkwrap and dropped it on the turntable…I didn’t understand it, not at all. But I kept playing it, BECAUSE […]

University of Missouri Protests

What kind of crazy, fucked-up world do we live in where the charge is led by football players? One in which money talks. That’s why the President resigned. The college was gonna lose a cool million if its football team didn’t play Brigham Young on Saturday. Welcome to the sixties, they’re back again. That’s right, […]