It doesn’t matter. It’s kinda like hip-hop. You either love it or hate it and there’s no track that’s gonna change your mind. That’s America in 2019. Polarized. But it’s even worse, not only are we on two sides, we can’t even agree on the rules. One side watches Fox and reads Breitbart and the […]

They sounded like a garage band. And I mean that as a compliment. I was listening to Joe Elliott tell stories of hanging with Bono and Bowie, that his favorite song was “All The Young Dudes,” and then the band fired up and played “Ziggy Stardust.” That’s not the track that remains, not the one […]

“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 […]

1 We sang. Starting in the first grade. I don’t remember singing in kindergarten, coulda happened, but my memory of that year is sketchy. But the first grade classroom was right next door, we lined up outside, and the teacher was Mrs. Godfrey. We had two recesses. The first one included milk, but no cookies. […]