Stevie Van Zandt, aka “Miami Steve,” aka “Little Steven,” aka “Silvio Dante,” has written an autobiography, “Unrequited Infatuations.” We dig into the process of writing the book, and we also cover the landscape from New Jersey…back to New Jersey! Growing up with the radio, the greatness of the Beatles, struggling in Asbury Park, failing to […]

This is hysterical! My inbox is blowing up! I don’t get anywhere near this amount of response when I write about music. As George Drakoulias said to me on the Staples Center floor, he used to argue about records, not anymore. How did the cultural zeitgeist switch so much? Did music let us down or […]

It’s not going to hurt Netflix. Netflix is too big, too desirable, too embedded in people’s lives to be abandoned, to be canceled. In this way it’s like Amazon or Walmart or Facebook. We constantly hear about their deleterious effects, boycotts are initiated, but the enterprise is just too good, it fulfills a need that […]

“Crossroads”: https://amzn.to/30LsLK5 This is an incredible piece of work. But not everybody will enjoy it. Because it’s written for a small coterie of industry insiders and Iowa Workshop believers and this makes it a bit difficult to read and is the case with all of the works lauded by these cliques, plot is secondary. But […]