Suggested by reader Rich Madow, he writes: Bands / artists that could not top their debut album, possibly to their detriment. These immediately come to mind: Pretenders – Pretenders Go Go’s – Beauty and The Beat Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill Strokes – Is This It? (good question!!) Moby Grape – Moby Grape Violent […]

“Leaving Neverland” is already old news. You know Michael Jackson’s handlers are aged boomers because they didn’t know you don’t fight back, you ignore it, and then people forget it. In today’s “New York Times Magazine” there’s a letter from a fourteen year old complaining that the paper’s list of “The Top 25 Songs That […]

Have you been watching “Russian Doll”? If so you can give me your explanation of the ending, I’m still trying to figure it out. And if you haven’t, it’s just a matter of time until you do, you see “Russian Doll” is this year’s “Stranger Things,” something that has built momentum sans media by early […]

It’s stupid, but you can’t turn it off. There’s a backlash against this flick. From people who weren’t there the first time and wouldn’t be there if this era ever came back, even though it can’t. You see the Sunset Strip was populated by castoffs, those not wanted, those who didn’t fit in, not Ivy […]