Believe it or not, there was a time when most people didn’t think music sucked, when they paid attention, when music drove the culture.  Before the labels were owned by fat cats blaming their audience for not buying their overpriced, overproduced, overmassaged cartoon acts. Culture has changed.  Stars are no longer unreachable.  Rather they’re in […]

1. Avril Lavigne "Best Damn Thing" Sales this week: 121,630Cume: 408,509 The best damn thing is those not interested NEVER EVER HAVE TO HEAR IT! The mainstream is now niche, it’s a sideshow.  Crossing over?  How are you going to reach people who are not paying attention? In an era where you can customize your […]

If you weren’t at Coachella are you a loser?  Hopelessly out of touch?  Living in a world where the memo never gets to your inbox? It’s Bon Jovi night on "American Idol".  Funny to think that Jon Bongiovi was once a hungry musician from New Jersey who would do anything to make it, and now […]

So we’re in the dressing room and Tom and Joni Mitchell are discussing open tunings. Tom had just finished up the first set with "Panama Limited", a compilation of Bukka White numbers.  And Tom and Joni were reminiscing about the days back in Detroit, when they met, when the old blues men were still revered, […]