Why is everybody so damn delusional? I was brought up a shithead. That’s what my parents considered me to be. They weren’t coddling me, telling me how great I was, that I was going to be a world-beater, rather they kept telling me the world was a scary place and it was hard to be […]

Kiesza – Hideaway (Official Video) – YouTube Hideaway – Spotify This is a hit! Last night I listened to the Spotify Top 50, to be more specific, “Today’s Top Hits,” hand-curated for your listening pleasure. Sunday I listened to “Top Tracks in the United States” and almost barfed. So much was imitative of everything else, […]

This is a step backwards. Or to put it another way, Amazon is the new Microsoft, which releases half-baked products that it tries to improve on the fly. As opposed to Apple, which tries to get it right the first time. And what did Steve Jobs famously say, hardware is hard? The Kindle Fire is […]

It was wasted on the Eels’ audience. What kind of self-respecting KCRW listener is going to sing along with Steve? You know, NA NA NA NA NA NA! But there’s pure joy in those words. And there was pure joy in the Orpheum tonight, when Steve Perry returned to the boards in Los Angeles and […]