1. Mumford & Sons “Babel” Sales this week: 599,915 Debut The revolution has begun! And it will not be televised! You’ve waited a long time, ever since 1999, when Napster reared its ugly head until a year later when everybody found out about it and shortly thereafter when everybody else got a high speed connection […]

Is there a better record than “I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore”? All anybody remembers about the Young Rascals’ debut is “Good Lovin’,” but that was an afterthought in my book, a trifle compared to “I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore.” YeeaAAAHHHH! The track started out quiet and then EXPLODED out […]

I didn’t learn much in college. But I learned a whole hell of a lot in high school, it made me who I am. Now let me clarify that a bit. I did learn a lot in college. Just very little in class. Taught by professors who’d rather be somewhere else, pursuing glory in the […]

I saw David Guetta standing on a street corner in Ibiza ignored by the teeming masses streaming right by him to enter Pacha, where long after midnight he’d “spin records” and have the assembled multitude dancing with their arms in the air, thrilled just to be alive. I was in Colorado. I didn’t plan not […]