I’m trying to figure out why all these hurricane relief concerts don’t ring true. Katrina is not 9/11.  Oh, a lot of people died, but they’re fundamentally different.  Unless you worked in the government, no one foresaw 9/11.  We were just walking happily through life, and we got smacked upside the head.  Not only when […]

So, did you download this Mike Doughty track yet? I liked it when I first heard it, and it’s been growing on me.  It’s the immediacy and the honesty. And the lyrics. Did you watch that "60 Minutes" segment on the echo boomers?  The key, their GOAL, is to be a member of the team.  […]

It’s about cornering the market. Don’t complain that the ROKR phone only holds 100 songs.  Just ask if anybody else has a better solution.  Never mind tied into the iTunes Music Store. I’d like to tell you I’m bowled over by Apple’s announcements today.  But I’m not.  So far, I’ve seen nothing revolutionary.  But as […]

Anybody waiting breathlessly for this? I mean doesn’t it seem like a rerun?  Or worse, a chance for acts to get exposure? Music made it based on being different.  On not repeating itself.  "Sgt. Pepper" was a quantum leap forward from "Revolver", and the White Album could not have been predicted from listening to "Pepper".  […]