Archive for 2007/02


This Week’s Sales-Week Ending 2/18/07

1. Norah Jones "Not Too Late" Sales this week: 210,861Cume: 852,843 Well, you can’t say it’s a Grammy bounce… But the more interesting fact is that after the Grammy hysteria, and the increased sales as a result thereof, this record moves up the chart to number one with FEWER sales than it had last week!  […]

Shelly

I’d like to tell you I had great teachers in college. That would be a lie.  Just about everything I learned at Middlebury I acquired in the dorm, bullshitting with my buddies or reading "Rolling Stone" and "Fusion" and every other rock rag I could get my hands on.  The professors, and there were no […]

Jonesy’s Jukebox Jury

Now even I want to fuck John Taylor. I only know Steve Jones as the guy who used to ride his motorcycle right up to the front door of his apartment in Beverly Hills, right next door to that of my quasi in-laws. Well, I know Jonesy as the guitarist of the Sex Pistols. But […]

Album Last Rites

We’ve got to kill the album. Actually, it’s already dead.  It’s just that the artists and labels don’t know it. Oh, don’t get your panties in a twist.  Just think about it.  When cavemen started banging on rocks, was there somebody chewing a primitive cigar saying you’ve got to have TWELVE rhythms, broken down six […]