NO MASHUPS Everybody hates them, we’ve got to make the show special in other ways. SUPERSTAR HOST Elton John. He hosts the show next year. He comes out, does “Your Song,” a two minute monologue and then interstitial stuff where he’s catty and funny and himself all at the same time. He gets to sit […]

I twisted my ankle getting on the plane. It was my fault. Everything’s my fault. Felice says I’m impatient. I travel heavy, and when there was a backup on the gateway, execs checking their carry-ons because they won’t fit on this tiny plane, I swerved to the left and little did I know there was […]

Have you heard the new Death Cab For Cutie track “Black Sun”? Not “Black Hole Sun,” this is definitely not Soundgarden, and if you don’t know Death Cab For Cutie, even if you’ve never heard of them, that’s irrelevant if you like rock music, you’re gonna get it immediately, you’re gonna wonder where it’s been […]

While there is time Let’s go out and feel everything If you hold me I will let you into my dream Steve Winwood was a star in the Spencer Davis Group when he was still underage and referred to as “Stevie,” frontman for the first supergroup Blind Faith, a cutting edge band leader in Traffic […]