I got into this sitting on the tarmac in Syracuse.  Turns out there were three tunnels dug.  And the one that won, the one that reached the stranded miners first, was American. There’s a drill bit with hammers.  Which kept breaking.  But this Pennsylvania company kept replacing the hammers and ultimately achieved victory over its […]

Hollow Talk by Choir of Young Believers This video does a disservice to this song. I think Robin Millar and I are on the same page.  But you wouldn’t know it by the e-mail he sends me.  He’s frustrated over change, he’s worried artists are being lost in the shuffle, he’s worried we’re going to […]

"The most traumatic events ever to befall the longtime front man of the Traumatics had been (1) receiving a Grammy nomination, (2) hearing his music played on National Public Radio, and (3) deducing, from December sales figures, that Nameless Lake had made the perfect little Christmas gift to leave beneath tastefully trimmed trees in several […]

I know, I know, I’m overloading you. And to think of the article I didn’t write a few hours ago, after listening to Howard Stern rail about getting no respect in his contract renegotiations with Sirius!  Do you realize that with new technology Howard Stern can build his own radio empire?  It might not be […]