Do you need anybody? Last night I went down to USC to hear George Martin tell the story of the making of "Sgt. Pepper". Not that I usually go to NARAS events. But a friend I only know from the Internet bought me a ticket. And despite my arriving thirty minutes past the time of […]

Is the music business going the way of the movie business? Huh? I thought everybody was FOLLOWING the music business, that the labels were the first to get raped by the Internet and now it’s movies, newspapers and TV’s turn. That’s all true. But what’s left of the music business is based on touring, and […]

I’m trying to decide whether to go to the Coldplay gig Monday night. I didn’t even know that Coldplay was going to be in town. Not because I don’t care about the band, but because it’s impossible to know what’s going on anymore. There’s not one site that lists every concert happening, at least not […]

What kind of fucked up world do we live in where a never made it Chicano cuts a better Bruce Springsteen song than the Boss himself? One in which New Jersey’s finest realizes this, duets with Alejandro Escovedo onstage and releases their collaboration commercially. Remember Slash Records? The hip little label with more cred than […]