“Rock and roll then was real, everything else was unreal.” John Lennon This is the most depressing book I’ve read all year. There’s always been music. It’s not like the Top Forty was blank before the Beatles. Even a few good groups dominated the airwaves prior to ’64, like the Four Seasons and the Beach […]

This is the best comedy special of the year. Forget Seinfeld, forget Chappelle, this is it. Not that it’s a competition. It’s just that we’re searching for excellence, something that touches and titillates us, in an era of ever more product we’re overwhelmed with choices and looking to be led to the promised land. Which […]

By embracing streaming. That’s right, you cannot get ahead if you stay behind. While other formats railed against payouts, declaring that music had “value,” while they bitched about everything from the loss of artwork to the decimation of the label, hip-hop hurdled over those barriers and won. The youth live online. The youth are early […]

“You’re on the road to hospitalization.” That’s what my shrink said, and he never does, speak, that is. I was wondering how I was gonna make it another week to the Rituxan infusion. I’d already canceled my trip to Colorado. I was supposedly on the road to improvement, so why did my body feel so […]