Why is everybody a scumbag? I think it started with Bill Clinton, who lied under oath. If the President doesn’t care about the truth, why should I? But a good case can be made for going back to Reagan, who legitimized greed. The baby boomers went from love one another to screw one another over […]

Peter Frampton was not the only unheralded rock star to break through with a live album in 1976. But unlike “Frampton Comes Alive,” Bob Marley and the Wailers’ live LP was a single disc and it had little initial impact, it was not the end of the band’s career, but only the beginning. You’ve got […]

I gotta know tonight If you’re alone tonight I wanted to hear “Hysteria” in hi-def. So I fired up my Wimp app and searched, but didn’t find it, other than in its live iteration. That’s right, Def Leppard is at war with Universal. Can’t stop this feeling Can’t stop this fire The album is twenty […]

We’re all fighting for it. Welcome to 2014. The Internet is two decades old, at least in the mind of the consumer, we’re all wired 24/7 and the primary feeling is one of exhaustion. We’re at an endless buffet and we can’t stop grazing even though we’re full and after a while everything looks the […]