Archive for 2017


U2 Does The Joshua Tree

They’re afraid. The dirty little secret of the last tour is it didn’t go clean, there were tickets available here and there. With all that production, with all those breakthroughs, with all that press… People didn’t want to hear the new songs. Ed Sheeran put out a couple of numbers last week and broke records. […]

The New York Times

If you didn’t go to Yale or Harvard, if you weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth, if you’re not boasting about getting no sleep because you work all day and go to charity events all night… You don’t count in America. Donald Trump’s election was a wakeup call. And the mainstream media […]

Anyday

Layla and Assorted Other Love Songs 1 “Layla” was a stiff. Clapton was not God, certainly not in today’s way, everybody did not know his name, he was not all over the papers, he was not Drake and he was not Taylor Swift, he was just a guitarist in bands who those paying attention knew […]

Bruce Springsteen On WTF

WTF Episode-773 Bruce Springsteen He’s so screwed up! But so are you. This could be the rock and roll moment of the year, equivalent to Bob Dylan’s speech at MusiCares back in 2015. Because rock and roll is a spirit, based on alienation, wherein if you speak your truth you believe it will set you […]