That’s not music! You were wrong on rap, are you gonna be left out of the loop one more time? Don’t be like Geffen Records, which famously thought rap was a fad and then went out of business (the label with that name today is a contractual obligation, it resembles not a whit the Aerosmith/Guns […]

I thought I was going to be crushed at the David Guetta show. And I wasn’t even in the tent. Happened to me once before, decades back, at a Chambers Brothers show in Boston Common. My feet left the ground, I was being held up by bodies, somehow I squirmed my way to the right […]

The revolution wasn’t televised, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, electronic dance music RULES! So I’m standing in the Mojave tent watching Dawes and Lisa comes up, leans in my ear, and says "YOU’VE GOT TO SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE NEXT TENT OVER, YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT." Yes, there are five stages at […]

The rich seduce the poor and the old are seduced by the young "When You Gonna Wake Up"Bob Dylan You can buy these albums, in this case "Slow Train Coming", but as time flies by it becomes clear they’re going to be forgotten. Not like "Tubthumping", which someone e-mailed me about last night. I’m not […]