Courtney Love may be insane, but whether she signed the contract or not, I’m sure there was no agreement that Kurt could sing "You Give Love A Bad Name".  Bon Jovi is everything Kurt stood against.  "Smells Like Teen Spirit" killed hair metal, now you’ve got him singing this pop tripe in a video game? […]

No casual fans were in attendance.  Because you couldn’t get a ticket.  And why would you want to? At the juncture of art and commerce, for one slim moment in the nineties, an act playing less than mainstream music could make a video so riveting, enhancing the underlying sounds, that MTV could air it and […]

‘You know what, Jimmy? Fuck you. Take that beat and shove it up Timbaland’s ass.’ You don’t talk to Jimmy Iovine that way! What kind of crazy, fucked up world do we live in where the pop stars are the goody-goodies, the ass-kissers who made our eyes roll in high school as they obeyed all […]

HYPE Talk to a label, it’s all about set-up. But in one fell swoop, Steve Jobs stole the Beatles’ thunder. We had this long run-up to on-sale today.  With the ongoing complaints that you couldn’t even get Beatle product, that it was sold out everywhere.  9/9/09 turned out to be a let-down.  The day the […]