At least that’s what Kevin Smith called it.  The inaugural Starfucking Smodcast, with Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman. What does it take to make it? Tons of effort.  And a dream. Kevin Smith is such a good interviewer, he makes me feel inadequate.  Not only can he ask the questions we want the answers to, […]

Ringo’s a revelation! Somehow, the Beatles coming to iTunes has become a business story, but that band was always about the music.  The mania came after.  The sheer joy of playing in a group, of living your life for music, not money, was the genesis.  Watching this film you can see right through the images […]

I heard about this first from Rapino. But no one’s listening to him, they’re just hating on Live Nation. For years Rapino’s been telling everybody that LN’s average customer goes to slightly more than one show a year.  Absolutely frightening unless you’re someone who lives in the present and believes the future’s gonna look just […]

I saw Little Feat at the Troubadour. When I was a junior in college, all the music magazines testified about this new album by Little Feat, entitled "Dixie Chicken". So, of course, I bought it.  And played it.  And if you’d taken a picture of my face upon that first time through you would describe […]