This Girl – Spotify This Girl – YouTube How did I miss this? Sometimes I feel like I’ve been dropped on this planet without a map. Oh, prior to electronics, the internet, I knew exactly where I was, what path I was on, growing up in the suburbs to go to a good college to […]

This record should be bad. A guy with no deal doing it independently, we’re inundated with the work of wannabes, we trust labels, radio and the press to weed out quality. But what if they don’t? The first criterion for music is listenability. I don’t care about theories, the lyrics, first and foremost it must […]

Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation – CNN My favorite Van Halen track is “And The Cradle Will Rock…” It used to be “Runnin’ With The Devil,” but I got hooked on the remastered version of “And The Cradle Will Rock…” on 1996’s “Best Of Volume 1.” I drove around in my BMW with the Alpine changer […]

Belfast Child  – Spotify I know they’re Scottish, but the song that kept playing in my head in Ireland was Simple Minds’ “Belfast Child.” There’s this place in the city called the Oh Yeah Music Centre. Kinda like that song by Roxy Music? I don’t think so, but you should check that one out, it’s […]