A fan doesn’t care if his favorite act is on the chart, doesn’t care if someone else is the flavor of the moment, a fan joins the club, goes to the convention and listens to the albums nobody else knows, like Robin Zander’s solo debut on Interscope. That’s Arvind’s favorite album. OF ALL TIME! The […]

We went to see "The T.A.M.I. Show" at the cemetery. Actually, I kind of dig the cemetery. There was one at the end of our street growing up. It was a cool place to ride my bike. Not that I’d want to get caught there overnight. And I’d actually been to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery […]

Once upon a time, Nick Lowe was Mutt Lange. The world’s most famous, most revered, record producer. But their styles were completely different. Mutt is a micro-manager, Nick put everybody in a room, pushed up the faders and tried to capture the magic. And that he did, on Elvis Costello’s game-changing debut, "My Aim Is […]

VINYL If one more print publication, on its way to extinction, killed by the Internet, does another story about the vinyl renaissance, I’m going to EXPLODE! Vinyl sounds better than CDs. I’m with you on this. Some people are buying albums for their artwork, others as fan totems, still others are actually listening to them. […]