I went to the Universal Amphitheatre, it will always be the Universal Amphitheatre to me, last night. We used to salivate, waiting for the two page announcement in the Sunday Calendar section of the "Los Angeles Times".  The bookings for the cut in the hill open air bowl where music THRIVED in the seventies.  "Miles […]

Gnarls Barkley sold nearly 60,000 CDs last week. It’s not because people love the act, think it’s here to stay, believe that Gnarls Barkley is the next Beatles, but because they love the SINGLE! "Crazy" is one of the best tracks of the year.  But there’s nothing else on "St. Elsewhere" close in quality or […]

We used to depend on the radio.  We were addicted to our transistors, then our FM radios and then…MTV. I just heard "Cool Places" on Sirius.  Oh, you remember that one.  Can you believe they actually PLAYED Jane Wiedlin and Sparks on MTV?  Remember when we were all addicted to MTV, when it was a […]

LIVE NATION/HOB HOB wanted out.  At a much higher price, but out nonetheless. We can talk about the fuck-ups in HOB’s history, Isaac Tigrett’s overspending a la Erich von Stroheim and the failed (or far ahead of its time) filming of acts for new media distribution, but that’s all in the past.  Now we’re left […]