Spotify: https://shorturl.at/FufVv YouTube: https://rb.gy/lz66x1 1 I guess prog rock began with Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Then again, that was the spring of ’71 and King Crimson’s debut had come out in the fall of ’69. Then again, the first Nice album came out in ’68. In any event, the first prog song most people heard […]

Subject: Re: More Fires Hi Bob, A friend just sent me this link, it’s to a googledoc spreadsheet that lists over 400 musicians and music industry people and other creatives who lost their homes.  I thought you might want to see it, if you haven’t already. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jyJ-NM2qP-iRk1LJ8l3dc7e0M3IhHlo3E7Agvo9JOAQ/edit?gid=0#gid=0 The sheer scope of it hits home harder […]

“The World According to Allee Willis” trailer: https://rb.gy/8onh15 This is a fantastic film. Of course I know who Allee Willis was. But I never met her, she was never my friend, I certainly never went to any of her parties. But people would talk about her. And what they constantly conveyed was that she was […]

It doesn’t matter if Drake wins. This will change record company behavior, as it should. From time immemorial record labels have refused to have any responsibility for the recordings and actions of their artists. Which is kind of funny, since in almost all cases the labels own the recordings outright, yet treat the acts like […]