I hesitated sending this to you because of the hateful comments and my screw-up of the name of Fontaines D.C., but thinking about it… Normally my words are filtered through the lens of a journalist, whereas here you get it straight from the horse’s mouth, i.e. me. So…

This is why the Democrats lost. I’m not watching the Grammys, and who cares. Of course I tuned in for the lame opening. I heard it was going to be “I Love L.A.,” but I expected the man himself, Randy Newman, instead of Dawes and a coterie of the half-dead. Either do it right or […]

Michael Jackson’s last guitarist, Australian Orianthi has a new album, and tales of how she got from Down Under to the international radar screen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/orianthi/id1316200737?i=1000687098778       https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/c4194786-84b0-42d6-858b-f1e284a6908e/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-orianthi

Last night I started reading the new Adam Ross book “Playworld.” It’s gotten great reviews, best of the year so far, and I loved his previous novel “Mr. Peanut.” And I was hooked by the very first sentence: “In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah […]