Hi Bob: Went online to get Radiohead tickets this weekend. I had a first draft of Master’s Thesis due (and I work fulltime) this past week and could not find the energy to get up at 9:00 and drive to a "nearby" ticketmaster…30-40 minutes away nowadays?! Jesus, they used to have ticket shops everywhere, now […]

1. George Strait "Troubadour" Sales this week: 166,305Debut I’ve got a complaint re country radio. There’s no movement on the chart. Records stay on for months. Is this good for the scene? I’d say not. I’d say the usual suspects who control Nashville and country radio are doing a disservice to the format, eliminating some […]

"Buildings & Mountains"Republic Tigers Somewhere in the eighties, the criterion changed. The question wasn’t whether something was good, but whether it was a HIT! A hit was something catchy, instantly memorable, that someone who’d actually pick up the phone and stay on the line with a researcher could recognize and approve of in a snippet. […]

There’s a new station in L.A., it bills itself as "World Class Rock". Wow, I’m glad they told me, I was worried they were only going to play SHIT!  That’s the problem with radio stations today, they just won’t play the good stuff.  We want the hits, and they won’t give them to us.  They […]