He’s a gunslinger. This is not the show I expected. I expected Dave would come out and do a soft rock rendition of his hits for a geriatric audience which remembers “We Just Disagree,” and maybe a smattering of fans of “Alone Together.” Instead, it was just like 1969 or ’70, when the Fillmores were […]

He was the first guy we saw with two bass drums and the first guy to do an extended drum solo on record. Cream straddled the transition from AM to FM. When their first album came out, the only underground FM radio station that existed was WOR-FM in New York. We were still California dreamin’ […]

Why was everybody there? There’s been no radio, no print, but the gig was sold out, at just over 20,000. What is happening here? No one exactly knows. The label head said it was the similarity to Depeche Mode. The manager said it was Coachella. That they dominated the Gobi tent. And that everywhere they […]

The Black Keys Get Real About the Music Business | Joe Rogan What kind of crazy, fucked-up world do we live in where an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast is more important than any TV show? One in which Howard Stern gets all the A-listers. They make news on Stern, it’s all fluff on TV. […]