Felix told us that he was supposed to be a classical musician.  His mother had him taking piano lessons three times a week, he didn’t know what rock and roll WAS!  But then she died, and some kids at school asked him if he wanted to join a band.  Wanting to integrate, wanting new friends […]

I dig the Mamas and the Papas at ‘The Trip,’ Sunset Strip in L.A.And they got a good thing goin’ when the words don’t get in the wayAnd when they’re really wailing, Michelle and Cass are sailin’Hey, they really nail me to the wall! If I thought really hard, I could remember the name of […]

It’s all about trust. There’s this guy Don VanCleave.  He’s gonna fuck with your notion of Alabamans.  He used to run a record store in Birmingham with the moniker Magic Platter, but now he heads CIMS, the Coalition of Independent Music Stores.  Get on his mailing list, don@cimsmusic.com, to get his weekly indie store chart.  […]

Seemed like everybody got an iPod LAST Christmas, didn’t it? Well I guess that wasn’t true.  Because Apple just reported a fifty percent increase in iPod sales last quarter, for a grand total of more than 21 million.  Or, as the AP said, one for nearly every Texan. But this isn’t the first year they’ve […]