What kind of crazy fucked-up world do we live in where the only artist of stature standing up to President Trump is an ethnic college graduate who made his bones on Broadway? One in which the “Hamilton” cast album is the 13th most consumed album of the first half of 2017, and #13 in sales […]

Petty Playlist 1 God it’s so painful Something that’s so close And still so far out of reach I got a phone call, my best friend said he needed to go to lunch. His father had died two weeks before, and he was down. I’m a good friend. You realize to never say no. I […]

Chris Zarou told me he was planning something special. Taylor Swift is no longer number one. All that hype, that blast making us pay attention, has been eclipsed by a record that’s been in the marketplace since May, given a jolt of jet fuel at the VMAs. You see we are in the second decade […]

Is there room for Sam Smith in a hip-hop dominated world? OF COURSE THERE IS! Streaming won, but the early adopters were young rappers, and presently most other genres are excluded from the top lists. But that’s about to change. And if we’re waiting for the oldsters to move the needle, we’re gonna die first. […]