You’ll have a hard time finding another person who listens to the same new music as you. Of course you can go online, or go to a gig and find acolytes of the same act, but the odds of going to work, hanging with friends, and finding commonality in new musical tastes is extremely rare. […]

I don’t plan to watch. Which is astounding if I look back to the past. The Oscars were a ritual. My mother would stay up late watching them. She was a movie buff, she used to go to these Judith Crist weekends. This was back when being a fan was enough, you didn’t need a […]

In that order. Will the war in Ukraine reset the music business? I certainly hope so, but it’s highly doubtful. People always tell me it’s the same as it ever was. That I’m just too old. That music means just as much to today’s younger generations, and is just as intrinsically meaningful. But that is […]

“Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark”: https://amzn.to/33Quj7d She’s a rock chick! The first, and in truth maybe the only, time I saw Elvira’s TV program was back in 1981, she had just gone on the air, and this woman I’d spent the night with turned it on and testified. I didn’t […]