For his twentieth birthday, Jeff Foskett was determined to meet Brian Wilson. Attending UCSB, Jeff drove down to L.A. and combed Bellagio Road looking for a house with the stained glass window from the cover of "Wild Honey". Moving slowly, he found it and got out of his car and knocked. Marilyn Wilson answered the […]

I encountered the paramedics on my way out. They were about to lift a twentysomething man onto a stretcher. Yes, electronic music fans are on drugs. But so were their parents. And people die at Bonnaroo, read Pasquale Rotella’s piece in the L.A. "Times" linked below, he delineates the issue well. But people clamp down […]

"21" is "Hotel California", it’s "Rumours", it’s "Jagged Little Pill", we’re still at the beginning, most people still don’t know who Adele is, this album’s gonna sell and sell and sell. Because of its quality, because of its authenticity, because of its humanity. This was the hottest ticket of the summer. Sold paperless, it was […]

I went to hear "All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side)" but my night was made by "I Want To Go To The Sun". Last time I saw Peter he was at the Greek too, last summer, giving it all on tour with Yes. It was kind of sad, the sun was still […]