Maybe a band like this can only come from Canada.  Where they don’t have the American Dream.  Where it’s not about becoming rich and famous as much as personal fulfillment. I was driving in the neighborhood pushing the buttons on XM and I found myself on XMU listening to a song that sounded like nothing […]

Anyone else having a sense of deja vu?  Like this is the end of the Mafia? I don’t know about you, but where I grew up there was a strong organized crime presence.  My father used to alert me to it as we drove through the streets of Bridgeport, Connecticut.  He’d tell me about the […]

In case you’re somehow out of the loop on this inane debate, I reference Jeff Leeds’ article in tomorrow’s "New York Times":  Labels Halt Downloads to Increase CD Sales I’ve got a revolutionary idea.  Why don’t the single and the album come out on the same DAY!!  This is the way it USED to be, […]

I was addicted to records.  Even though I had no stereo, I went to the record store.  It was a religious pilgrimage.  And then, finally, I had to convince my sister to come with me.  To charge up a bunch of the new releases on my father’s credit card, so we could listen to them […]