“Morgan Wallen Will Not Submit Latest Album for Grammys Consideration – The country singer became the latest major artist to abandon the awards, declining to enter his chart-topping fourth album, “I’m the Problem,” for the 2026 ceremony.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/arts/music/morgan-wallen-grammys.html I’ve got a bug up my ass about the Grammys. It seems the only people who take […]

BritBox trailer: This would be the talk of the town if it was on Netflix. There’d be features about Rose Ayling-Ellis in all the newspapers and people would be talking about it, but… It’s on BritBox. Having said that, it’s number one on BritBox, deservedly so. The only time I’ve felt this tense watching a […]

Netflix trailer: This is utterly fantastic. On some level stupendous. This is not your average rock doc…you know, a linear retelling of the band’s career, pure fact with a bit of rearview interpretation by those still alive. RATHER, this is all about the inspiration, this is all about the ARTISTRY! And we haven’t had that […]

1 This is my favorite song on the new Ghost album, “Skeletá.” At this point everybody in the business is familiar with the Swedish “metal” band. But the dirty little secret is the music is really not metal. I’m not saying it’s never heavy, but unlike so much of today’s metal it’s not played at […]