Why does all the good music come from Canada? Used to be we looked across the pond, now if we want to see who’s testing the limits, who’s satiating us while expanding our horizons, we look up north. Somehow the U.S. has devolved, it’s like we’re a living Devo record, it’s the lowest common denominator, […]

Maybe we need to let Ticketmaster and Live Nation merge to pave the way for what comes next. What killed the major labels was radio consolidation.  With Clear Channel owning so many stations and populating them with twenty plus minutes of commercials per hour, people started tuning out.  Conventional wisdom is Bill Clinton fucked up, […]

And they wonder why no one wants to buy them. It’s bad enough that CDs are antiquated and overpriced.  But now you want us to pay to be bombarded by advertising?  Hello??  Doesn’t anybody at Island Def Jam read?  That people, especially the younger generation that buys the beat-infused music Mariah Carey now makes, are […]

The Internet is for sharing.  It’s where we go to reveal our innermost thoughts.  The new Joni Mitchell is not a musician, but a blogger, detailing his or her own truth in the hope that someone, somewhere, will read the words and the writer will not feel so alone. I had a rough night.  One […]