Archive for 2014/08


Rhinofy-Matchbox Twenty Primer

Too soon? I was never a fan until I heard the acoustic version of “Push” on a Star 98.7 holiday sampler. You remember Star 98.7, don’t you? Where Ryan Seacrest got his start paired with Lisa Foxx? She kept giving him a hard time for being so metrosexual. To think that if it weren’t for […]

Hush

I thought I heard her calling my name I had a Norelco Compact Cassette player. Yup, that’s what it said right on the tiny machine about the size of a shoebox, but much thinner, with a speaker on top and a drawer for the cassette below. Eventually they changed the name to Philips and dropped […]

Chopped Teen Tournament

Chatting with the Chopped Teen Tournament, Part 4 Winner The judges talked shit. Why is it that everybody believes their kid is a talented musician deserving the accolades of everybody and no one will tell a wannabe he sucks to his face? Felice is addicted to the Food Network. Because of my ongoing ass problems, […]

The Daily Beast Article

“Five Lessons The Faltering Music Industry Could Learn From TV” You’ve got to stop e-mailing me this article. This is what drives me crazy about America, people glom on to something that squares with their world view and trumpet it to high heaven even though the writer’s got no basis in reality and the whole […]