Albums, tracks or acts that have faded into the woodwork that deserve attention/recognition. Like Blondie Chaplin’s “Lonely Traveler,” have you heard it? The whole initial solo LP is fine: Blondie Chaplin Or Nik Kershaw’s “15 Minutes,” absolutely brilliant in sound and lyrics and it’s not even on Spotify, never mind any other streaming music service! […]

Six13 – Bohemian Chanukah (a Queen adaptation) This is so last decade. But it’s got over a million streams in under a week on YouTube. Now, is Article 13 gonna prevent these parodies? Beware of what you wish for. Rappers stole samples and then when rightsholders refused to license on reasonable terms, it became all […]

The rewards are on the edge, but it’s easy to fall off. Everyone who pushes the envelope does so too soon, you always have to wait for the audience to catch up with you. People are confounded by the new and different before they embrace it. Legends push the envelope, journeymen don’t. Record labels used […]

Live by the sword, die by the sword. As for Kid Rock’s use of the b-word, isn’t there a Rolling Stones song entitled that? Oh, that’s right, that was the seventies, no wonder rock is in the dumper, you just can’t be sexist anymore. And I don’t want to get into a long discussion of […]