The first thing you’ve got to know is the U.S. and U.K. releases were different. The second thing you need to know is I didn’t buy it upon release. It had no hit singles. Albums were a value proposition. “Rubber Soul” was the LP that broke the paradigm. But we didn’t know that yet. At […]

The nip slip was the best thing to ever happen to the Super Bowl. After Prince’s triumphant performance that is. Quick, name who won that nip slip game! Or even last year’s game? The Super Bowl is a national holiday wherein we all come together to eat too much, get drunk and have fun. A […]

Not that you’d know that. The news story is how Songkick flubbed the sale by revealing buyers’ info. Songkick says nothing of consequence was revealed. But the public flips out over data breaches. Rightfully so. All of which means it’s hard to do big things on a big scale. And despite so many flaws in […]

YOU’RE NEVER BORED There’s always stimulation at your fingertips, whether it be Netflix streaming on demand or books delivered wirelessly to your tablet. We always wondered what it was like living in the pre-TV era, never mind the 1800s, when there were vast stretches of emptiness in your day. Now we marvel at the last […]