I listened to Ry Cooder’s new album. It doesn’t sound like anything else in the marketplace. Then again he never did. But back in the seventies you needed a major label to play, which he had, and he was the beneficiary of the Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders, double album samplers for two bucks. And with fewer […]

Porcelain: A Memoir What if you became a rock star? Moby invited us to dinner at his vegan restaurant the Little Pine in Silver Lake. It was jumping. We got a table in the back and Moby asked me about me, which rarely happens. I like that people like to tell their stories, but when […]

Do we want them to act just like men? Aggressive, cutthroat, willing to do anything to make it? Last Saturday I got into a discussion about a man in the music business. This woman deplored him, I had no problem with him. She said he told off-color jokes, I said men tell jokes like this […]

It only works if you mint stars. The finale was the other night. Was it Sunday, or Monday, damned if I know. Then again, probably not Sunday, because that’s when the “Billboard” awards were, another sinking show, just check the ratings. Weren’t live events supposed to save broadcast TV? With their Twitter updates and wars? […]