Gillian Welch played "White Rabbit". It was that kind of night.  One of memories.  Most aged bands try to pretend only the audience got old.  They get plastic surgery, dye their hair, try to look like it’s still the sixties or seventies when the audience has gray hair, pot bellies and bad backs.  Aging is […]

That’s right, he’s gone now too, just got an e-mail. I know he had heart trouble, but… Worked great in the CBS organization, and then fought the man better than anybody. Meatloaf would be unknown without Popovich. He called on a regular basis.  He did favors.  He was one of the good guys. They don’t […]

The American radio landscape was changed forever by two tracks.  Soft Cell’s "Tainted Love" and Human League’s "Don’t You Want Me".  KROQ played both, KMET refused to do so, KROQ is arguably the most valuable music station in America today and KMET is defunct, for a long time now, replaced by a soft jazz station […]

A great day for Apple. Not such a good day for Amazon, Google and the recording industry. Apple has a problem.  Android penetration.  I could mention RIM/BlackBerry, but if you think that company and its devices still count, you’re Canadian.  Android sales have superseded those of iPhones.  How to beat back the tide? Software. Software […]