Fire Neil Portnow. We’re at an historic point in the music business.  The decline of the power of the major labels.  Only two albums went double platinum last year and the four remaining majors look more like Lehman Brothers than Apple.  They’ve mismanaged while extracting untold profits and sky-high salaries, bitching all the while that […]

My favorite Neil Young album is the first.  Which is why I streamed this. I started off with the second, "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere".  Bought it around the same time as "Deja Vu".  I needed more.  I loved "Cinnamon Girl", but the killer was "Down By The River".  I was hooked.  I turned everybody […]

Diane Warren Teri Garr says she judges someone’s intelligence by whether they get the jokes.  I judge people’s intelligence by whether they remember meeting me. I’m not talking about a handshake, but a conversation.  If we spoke for fifteen minutes, how can you not remember me?  I’ve introduced myself over and over to the same […]

Only seem to work at Wal-Mart. You can rail on and on about the economy, but if that were a factor, how come the AC/DC album sold 90,000 to Guns N’ Roses 257,000?  Even though "Black Ice" has already been in the marketplace for six weeks?  As for Christina Aguilera, last week, her second, she […]