What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where a RECORD COMPANY names its new video division DEN OF THIEVES! God, you’d be stunned at the backlash I got for not writing about Ahmet Ertegun’s failure to pay royalties.  Oh, Ahmet looked like a hero to those enjoying his company’s productions, but […]

Believe it or not, there was a time when most people didn’t think music sucked, when they paid attention, when music drove the culture.  Before the labels were owned by fat cats blaming their audience for not buying their overpriced, overproduced, overmassaged cartoon acts. Culture has changed.  Stars are no longer unreachable.  Rather they’re in […]

1. Avril Lavigne "Best Damn Thing" Sales this week: 121,630Cume: 408,509 The best damn thing is those not interested NEVER EVER HAVE TO HEAR IT! The mainstream is now niche, it’s a sideshow.  Crossing over?  How are you going to reach people who are not paying attention? In an era where you can customize your […]

I remember when it broke 30 cents at the Calso station, my father was astonished. Cheap gas, isn’t that what America was built on?  You bought a car and set out into the hinterlands.  Hell, remember the Sunday drive? Well, that was before the first oil crisis, back in ’73, when they dropped the speed […]