Why was everybody there? There’s been no radio, no print, but the gig was sold out, at just over 20,000. What is happening here? No one exactly knows. The label head said it was the similarity to Depeche Mode. The manager said it was Coachella. That they dominated the Gobi tent. And that everywhere they […]

It wasn’t creepy. I was shocked how many people were there, it was essentially sold out. How did they know and why did they go? Advertising, Nelly told me, she runs marketing for the tour. I didn’t see any of it, not a bit, but that just shows how vast the world now is, you […]

You gotta keep your love Keep your love alive For rock music. I woke up today and my brain was playing this song. I was kinda fuzzy, like I’d been through something. They call it music. Elle King… A constant warning to take the other direction, as Jim Carroll once sang. Completely different from everything […]

It was incredible. If live music were always this good, I’d go every night! Now this was an older hipster crowd, who knew every lick from way back when and came to pay fealty to Bryan and hear the tunes once again. This was not the Stones crew, down and dirtier, this was people with […]