You’d think after the Live 8 debacle MTV would take a turn towards credibility, but the selection of P. Diddy as the host of the Video Music Awards shows how wrongheaded, how out of touch, how TELEVISION the channel has become. Just days after the "New York Times" remarked that Puffy is now about fashion, […]

This guy, let me see, his name is Dana Collins, he e-mailed me a CD. I’m gonna tell you a secret.  I don’t play CDs. No, not never ever.  But just about.  Especially if they’re of unsigned acts, those priorities you’re always inundating me with. I’m gonna give you a clue.  Anybody listening to your […]

Call it the Metallica Rule.  When you can’t get arrested, give it away.  When you’re a star, arrest people for stealing your music. Radio’s over.  The model is done.  Unless iPods start coming with commercials and every Internet radio station has to have twenty minutes of ads, terrestrial radio is done.  Oh, it will survive […]

I was trying to explain Lowell George to Felice. Last week I went to Rhino in Burbank to do my inaugural podcast. God, what a schlep. Took me an hour. Never mind the respite for refueling at Quizno’s where I ate with strippers. If you’ve ever been to Burbank you know what a disconnect this […]