Archive for 2016/04


More Kesha

I have no idea whether Kesha was raped by Dr. Luke. But I do know the singer has a bad lawyer. This is the same guy who represented Winona Ryder, who was accused of shoplifting. Rather than copping a plea and having it go away, he turned it into a cause celebre that resulted in […]

Andy “Thunderclap” Newman

A footnote in the history of rock and roll, under his moniker a classic rock track was created that will never die. But he did. Last week. Years after his bandmates Speedy Keen and Jimmy McCulloch. McCulloch joined the band when he was fifteen. And it was he who went on to further notoriety, most […]

Do You Have To Lie To Get Ahead?

Or to put it another way, are you better off telling people what they want to hear? Trump tells his acolytes there’s gonna be a border wall that Mexico will pay for. Bernie tells his believers that college is gonna be free. Neither will happen. But neither will get elected. The true winners don’t hit […]

Love Yourself

Justin Bieber – Love Yourself – YouTube I listened to the Spotify U.S. Top Fifty and this was the best song on it. Second best was Robin Schulz’s “Sugar,” which stalled on the U.S. chart, but has an amazing hook, sampled from the 2004 Baby Bash smash “Suga Suga.” Huh? That was over a decade […]