Archive for the 'The Music' Category


The Magic

1 The funny thing about the people who tell me to be nice is they’re motherf*ckers behind your back. They’re all friendly, kissing your butt in person, but when you’re not looking, they stick the knife in your back. If I’m going to stick a knife in you, I’m going to do it in broad […]

Me On Rick Beato

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…

Beyoncé Backlash

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 […]

AmericanaFest Salute To John Hiatt

1 Isn’t that Fred Tackett? Dealing with seating by the side of the upstairs bleachers… I heard “Slow Turning” in the background. And I sneaked a look forward and… There was this white-haired guy wailing on guitar and… I scanned the Troubadour stage and I saw Billy Payne on keys. And Kenny Gradney was on […]