Chris Rock: Music kind of sucks. Nobody’s into being a musician. Everybody’s getting their mogul on. You’ve been so infiltrated by this corporate mentality that all the time you’d spend getting great songs together, you’re busy doing nine other things that have nothing to do with art. You know how shitty Stevie Wonder’s songs would […]

I’m sick and tired of the constant debate about Radiohead’s business model. It WASN’T a business model. It was a one time stunt that is not the future of the music business and will only be replicated by fools. Want to make some money? Sell t-shirts. Charge for gigs. Create a fan club (that actually […]

So I’m sitting in the waiting room at the House Ear Clinic reading "Men’s Journal" and I come across a BlackBerry ad featuring Terry McBride. A few months back, I saw one featuring John Mayer. Why do we hate John Mayer? Is it the overemoting? Or the ridiculous tattoos? Or the Jessica Simpson fixation? Oh, […]

I was sitting at the kitchen table, reading the Sunday "New York Times", when I stumbled upon an article about Aretha Franklin in the "Arts & Leisure" section. When Aretha had her incredible run, back in the sixties, we didn’t think she’d still be the Queen of Soul in the twenty first century. Hell, we […]