It’s mediocre. This album should not have been produced by T-Bone Burnett, but Rick Rubin.  Rick is famous for getting his acts to get back into the headspace they inhabited when they did their best work and forcing them to write and write and write until they come up with material just as good as […]

"Nobody knows anything."  That’s what screenwriter William Goldman famously said about the movie business. No aphorism could be more true about today’s music business.  I asked everybody I came in contact with what brought 3,700 people out to see this band last night. Maybe they’d paid their dues.  From the Hotel Cafe to the Troubadour […]

What did Ann Coulter say, you don’t attack down, you attack up? When I got the e-mail from the reporter asking me if Taylor Swift’s new record was really about me, my temperature didn’t even rise.  Because I don’t think I’m that big a guy.  Howard Stern read my post on his radio show yesterday […]

Gene Simmons Targeted by Hackers Original story here: Gene Simmons gets kiss of death from notorious web forum It used to be me, me, me. Now it’s you, you, you. Suddenly, you work for your customers, your fans, not the record company, not radio, not MTV, but the people who actually foot the bill.  Just […]