BILLY JOEL WEARS YELLOW STAR OF DAVID ONSTAGE … Post-Charlottesville One of the most horrifying things you see in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam is a roll of Jewish stars, the ones needed to be worn during the occupation. Straight from the factory, before they were cut up into individual stars for Jews to […]

We underestimate talent. Used to be we were looking for the unique voice, now me-tooism reigns. Maybe it’s the millennial ethos of fitting in, where boomers were all about being square pegs in a round hole, letting their freak flags fly. And technically, David Letterman is a baby boomer. Now most people leave TV and […]

“Walmart’s C.E.O. Joins Group to Rebuke Trump Over Charlottesville” What kind of crazy fucked-up world do we live in where corporations speak truth to power and artists are silent? One in which corporations are much more powerful than artists, one in which they incite belief far exceeding that of individuals. Come on, is there a […]

It’s about the money. Why would you expect artists who’ve spent the complete century complaining about recorded music revenue to suddenly put their livelihoods at risk? Those who lived through the sixties have been waiting for a reaction. Another Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, even Barry McGuire, to stand up and sing […]