Not long after I pulled over for the Bomb Squad van, I tuned into the Village, channel 15 on XM. Last week, sick of fighting the rap wars, I had the epiphany I was only going to listen to folk music.  Maybe country, that Wreckers album is really good.  But is that really country?  Do […]

As if you needed convincing terrestrial radio was about advertising… America’s number one country radio station changed formats Thursday because…you just can’t make it appealing to white people. Yup, that’s what the head of EMMIS Radio said. In the melting pot of Los Angeles, appealing only to shitkickers, and their middle-class baby boomer brethren who’ve […]

Blame Chumbawamba.  And Smash Mouth.  If you bought their albums to get "Tubthumping" and "Walkin’ On The Sun" respectively you found out not only was there nothing close to as catchy on these overpriced discs, there wasn’t even anything that SOUNDED SIMILAR! The audience was about to cry uncle anyway.  What with the bloated albums […]

I used to buy Chris Hillman records. Oh, I knew he was in the Byrds.  But it was really because I loved that first Souther, Hillman, Furay record.  Oh, I know, the band hated each other, J.D. gave Richie no respect, but there were certain tracks on that album…  Shit, remember "Life ain’t so easy […]