Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ernlYx YouTube: https://bit.ly/3ih1Fzv 1 “Gaucho” was hobbled by the three years since “Aja” and the $9.98 price point, a dollar more than all that came before, back when record price used to be a thing and labels were eager to make more money, damn the fans, or the acts. Tom Petty protested this same […]

Bob, It would be too easy to just dismiss this missive… But, you and I haven’t had a good go in awhile… so, let’s go… Firstly, I believe in the First Amendment.  My job has never been to tell my artists what to sing and write about.  My job has always been about identifying unique […]

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3rbSynA YouTube: https://bit.ly/36LMIzP Listen to “Seventeen Going Under” twice and you’ll listen to it ad infinitum. In fact, it sounds like forty years ago, the Alarm mostly, but the truth is the human condition never changes, being a teenager is the same, and although we’re happier as we get older we’re all still seventeen […]

“With help from Fox News, Aaron Lewis tops country chart with song bemoaning statue removal”: https://lat.ms/3rbcsPE Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous” is the biggest album of the year. Statistically, that’s what the MRC half-year report says. But you don’t see this trumpeted in the newspaper. Instead we get all this crap about flavor of the moment pop […]