Someone just emailed me about an act. Entitled _____ _______. This woman raved, as fans are wont to do. I pulled up the album on Spotify. In fifteen seconds I was done. Forty years ago, if someone gave me an album I’d play it all the way through, multiple times, waiting for it to reveal […]

Artists are supposed to lead, not follow. How come they’re still making albums? Did you see that Rihanna topped the British charts last week after selling 9,578 copies of her album “Talk That Talk”? This in a country of 60 million! It was the lowest sales number in history! Let’s blame it on the public. […]

Taylor Swift is dating Conor Kennedy. And I don’t give a shit, but he’s eighteen. Wasn’t she the one complaining that John Mayer was taking advantage of her? Yes, Mayer was much older, and Conor’s a Kennedy, but would you like your barely eighteen year old college freshman daughter dating an almost twenty three year […]

I have a friend who killed himself. And not long before he did the deed, he told me he “married well.” I know, I know, that seems like a non sequitur. Kind of like turning on your computer and finding out Tony Scott jumped off a bridge. What did Joni Mitchell sing, “We all live […]