When I was a little boy, I was infatuated with the British Invasion. "Meet The Beatles" wasn’t the first album I bought, but when "I Want To Hold Your Hand" hit the radio in January of ’64, my listening looked to the U.K., I needed to hear the Merseybeat, emanating from my leather-clad transistor. But […]

Ask Vulture: Should You Watch Sunday Night’s Grammy Awards?

 1. Alicia Keys "As I Am" Sales this week: 61,259Percentage change: +3Weeks on chart: 12Cume: 2,907,459 Rumor has it that Clive Davis has no new protege to introduce at this year’s Grammy party. Could it be that you just can’t break an Alicia Keys anymore? Alicia Keys was established at the tail end of the […]

I heard Daughtry on Sirius today. There are many things wrong with Sirius.  First and foremost, the reception problem.  Secondly, the insane jive element.  With all the cliches of radio.  All the stuff Lee Abrams has excised from XM.  But I’ve come to find out that Sirius sounds better than XM.  And that Sirius plays […]