R.E.M. I heard a good track off their new album on L.A.’s new terrestrial station, "The Sound", today. I still think the outlet’s branding sucks, "World Class Rock", "The Sound", what the fuck do they mean, but the playlist has improved. It’s good if you’re living in 2001, pre-iPod, when you had to sit through […]

It’s not summer here yet in SoCal. It’s been a hundred degrees in NYC, I’ve lived through those east coast Junes, when the mosquitoes will eat you alive and you’re shvitzing as soon as you leave the house, but out here…we’ve still got June gloom, you can’t always leave the house without a jacket. Then […]

1. The Electronic Arts guy said sales of video games in South Korea were tanking. They went from around eight million bucks a year to two… The bosses in the U.S. freaked out. They fired a ton of people. One of the newbies asked if he could experiment with a lame game, do something different… […]

VINYL If one more print publication, on its way to extinction, killed by the Internet, does another story about the vinyl renaissance, I’m going to EXPLODE! Vinyl sounds better than CDs. I’m with you on this. Some people are buying albums for their artwork, others as fan totems, still others are actually listening to them. […]