From Mark Goodman (yes, THAT Mark Goodman): you are way behind the curve when it comes to spotting great music (just discovering Gomez! Gnarls Barclay!the Mark Knopfler/Emmy Lou Harris record that’s been around for months…are you fucking kidding!) What, is it 1972? Last time I checked, 60,000 albums were released a year.  If you know […]

I am absolutely positively FLABBERGASTED at the response to Mike Van Jura’s e-mail about selling out.  Could it be that the insiders in this business are such whores, drinking their own kool-aid to SUCH a degree that they’re COMPLETELY out of touch with the public? I’m gonna say it again.  Most music sucks.  The fact […]

Bob— First—thank you for your newsletter. I’m a new subscriber after reading your contributions to the Celebrity Access Newsletters and can wholeheartedly say that I look forward to your musings in my inbox every day now. I’m sure you’re inundated with mail, so I’ll be brief— What are your thoughts on what seems to be […]

XM has the greatest service known to man and the only people who know it are its subscribers. Used to be that satellite radio was new, a NOVELTY! But once Howard Stern hit the front page of "The New York Times" satellite radio became Coldplay. The new thing that EVERYBODY had heard of. I know […]