Suddenly Juliette Lewis is an expert? Isn’t that like Brad Pitt believing he can really manage a major league baseball team, or Lester Bangs thinking he can be a rock star? If you want to watch one skit from last night’s SNL, watch this one, "You Can Do Anything", which may not be hysterically funny, […]

I had a drink with a friend of mine at Soho House today. It’s the office for those without one. People who travel the world and need a place to hang. And right now there are too many thirtysomething wannabes populating the establishment in L.A., but we first got together at the Soho House in […]

The label screwed up. Interscope gave iTunes a one week exclusive and violated its agreement. The track should be back up on Spotify in four days. Van Halen had nothing to do with pulling it down. Then again, they certainly approved the ticket prices! But that’s music today. If everybody’s doing it, why shouldn’t we? […]

Somebody e-mailed me an MP3 of "Tattoo" and it sounded positively AWFUL! All compressed, with the vocal right up front, and if I was a self-satisfied smugster I would have said it sucked. But when I listened to a higher res version via my $250 Sennheiser headphones, when I listened on my $1500 AUX speakers, […]