Archive for 2006/04


The Alarm

This is what’s wrong with the music business. I hate CDs.  They’re inconvenient.  I’m a mobile person.  Moving from room to room.  I’m not about to cart my skipping Discman with me, the iPod ELIMINATED that problem.  Yet major labels still send CDs.  What’s next?  Car companies delivering containers of STEAM?  Hell, the Stanley Steamer […]

New Act Primer

1. Songs This is one thing Clive Davis has right.  How you play, how you sing, how you look…they’re all secondary to the TUNES! If you want to reinvent the form, you’d better be REALLY talented.  Like Freddy Mercury with "Bohemian Rhapsody".  Or realize that the odds of breaking big via radio/video airplay are almost […]

Love Potion Number 9

My SkyFi wasn’t activated. Turns out the free sub on it only lasted a year.  And despite frantic e-mail with XM, I couldn’t make it live before our trip to Mammoth.  So, we went terrestrial. The Owens Valley is almost devoid of people.  And it turns out the days of ubiquitous AM signals must be […]

E-Mail Of The Day – Gilmour in NYC

From: Nick Porcella I don’t know if you have plans to go when he makes it out your way, but it might be in your best musical interests if you did.  I just saw the Radio City show in NYC – InFuckingCredible.  I was born 15 years too late so I was never able to […]