Great piece on Melanie. I interviewed her for my  podcast just last week, so it was probably her final one. Melanie was very gracious and told some fantastic stories that I don’t think people know about her. First, her husband/manager/producer, whose office was across the hall from Michael Lang’s, asked if Melanie would play a […]

Netflix trailer: https://rb.gy/sokfq5 This is a hot new doc. It passes the RottenTomatoes test with a rating of 95/92. Anything that goes into the nineties in both the critics’ and audience ratings floats my boat, is worth checking out. And it’s an excellent viewing experience. For a while there, you’ll be on the edge of […]

1 There was a moment there when she was hip. I became aware of her back in ’69, with her song “Beautiful People.” I can’t tell you where I heard it. Possibly on AM. But probably on FM. By that time I was totally hooked. There was the progenitor in New York, WOR. And then […]

This is not a harbinger of what’s to come, this is the last gasp of a dead paradigm. In other words, record reviews are history. We needed them. Because there was no way to hear most of the music. We needed guidance before we laid down our cold hard cash. And we got to the […]