It didn’t end until 12:30 AM, when they threw us out of the SiriusXM studio. I was disappointed Yoakam arrived late, but as soon as he got there he sat down in a chair and started riffing and I was stunned… THIS GUY IS SMART! In a dumb business, where oftentimes the musicians are stoners […]

Work It – Spotify Work It – YouTube This would have been a smash on the ROQ of the 80s. Back when the weird was purveyed and embraced, when music heads were still the hippest in the world. And in that bygone era, KROQ embraced a Kraftwerk tune, “Pocket Calculator,” and suddenly the act blew […]

Ry Cooder “Better Not Shake It No Mo’” This is so right, yet so wrong. Right in concept, wrong in execution, marketing that is. You can’t get your message heard. All the traditional intermediaries are long in the tooth and near worthless. Talk to the acts that get their records reviewed in the newspaper, it […]

The Savoy Brown Anthology I knew the Savoy Brown Blues Band but never heard them. They were always billed at the Fillmore, but New York radio did not play them. It was the opposite of today’s situation, my inbox is filled with people who’ve never heard of Twenty One Pilots, but their music is just […]