1. Norah Jones "Not Too Late" Sales this week: 405,031Debut Snorah.  I’ve got no problem with her.  Other than the fact that EMI is pinning their hopes on her, that the media is making her release such a story. Norah Jones did not expect to become an instant star.  And she hasn’t acted like a […]

It used to be you functioned in a vacuum.  If you didn’t agree to national TV or print, nobody knew what the fuck you were doing. Those days are through. The e-mail bell just keeps on ringing.  Got these in the last two minutes: Martin Dean Ross: God Almighty Bob!    I am surfing the TV […]

Thoughts on Music "jawbone"verb ( trans. ) attempt to persuade or pressure by the force of one’s position of authority : the Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman jawboned the dollar higher by calling its recent steep decline a purely speculative phenomenon |  an analyst jawboning about the industry. Dictionary built into Mac OS X Tiger. […]

1 Concertgoing has become bourgeois. (Thank you Madonna!) You dress up nice. Park in some structure, or on some line-painted macadam. You enter a venue with carpeting. You eat overpriced imitation gourmet food. You applaud politely. At the end of the evening, you feel you’ve been entertained. Not really so different from your parents going […]