Is about taking chances. When oldsters complain that there’s no more artist development, what they’re really saying is labels are no longer interested in signing the outsiders, the weird, the risky, and staying with them for four or five LPs to see what they turn into. Once upon a time, most record labels weren’t multinational […]

If one function devices could continue to triumph, the iPod would not be supplanted by the iPhone. A friend just asked me if I was on BBM.  That’s BlackBerry Messenger for the uninitiated.  And many may never be initiated, because BlackBerry is so 2001.  Or 5.  Or maybe even 6 or 7, but certainly not […]

It’s great!  Fantastic!  Because finally the NFL figured out that it exists in the twenty first century and classic rock is aged music from another era and represents not a whit what is happening in the game today. Hell, the soundtrack of the NFL is hip-hop.  But they can’t say that or the white folk […]

Re: Todd Alsup I see your gay soul/jazz singer (actually a poorer version of the terrific but not yet Lefsetz-stamped Mayer Hawthorne), and I raise you a transgendered/queer songwriter from Calgary, now a man known as Rae Spoon, who blew my mind tonight in Ottawa, seeing him live for the first time. Rae Spoon There […]