It’s got seven songs and it’s twenty three minutes long. This form factor is more important than the songs contained therein, which have unfortunately gotten mediocre reviews. Yes, you self-satisfied white rockers, you need to admit it, you’re behind the curve. While rappers embraced the internet, giving their music away for FREE I say, HOW […]

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 […]