I can’t get this song out of my head. I know, I know, it was a hit a couple of months ago, but this aged boy only discovered it this week on Spotify’s Top Hits in the USA playlist, or something like that. That’s right, I’ve given up on Apple Music. No matter what Jimmy […]

I know I’m supposed to prefer Jason Isbell. I know hipsters love rap and Beats 1. I know the way music used to be, with a mainstream and then an alternative that laughed at those not in the know. I know I live in the internet era where everybody with a bone to pick will […]

AIN’T TOO PROUD TO BEG This was during the denouement, when the Rolling Stones were the World’s Greatest Rock And Roll Band, but their recorded efforts were spotty, their rep was based on their live show, and the hits of yore. I’ll posit that “It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll” is better than its predecessor, “Goats […]

It’s shit like this that makes me think music is doomed, if not our whole damn nation. Taylor Swift might have lived a life on the road, but she didn’t go to college and get the knowledge, the powers of analysis that would allow her to parse details and come up with cogent statements, never […]