That’s right, the Backstreet Boys album. I had to own it, I needed to hear “I Want It That Way.” After all, it was cowritten by the world’s number one hitmaker, MAX MARTIN! Huh? Just like Mutt Lange was the eighties’ secret sauce, Max Martin has filled that role for the past fifteen years, ever […]

It was sunny today. Spring is coming. Just when I want to put on the brakes and have the world slow down. I’m thirty one days in but I can see the ski season ending, and with the California drought I doubt Mammoth will make it until June. I don’t think I could live on […]

And then there are the songs you hate when they’re hits… That you absolutely LOVE decades later. Like Roger Miller’s “King Of The Road.” We already knew him from “Dang Me,” which seemed like an extension of the Down Under hit “Tie Me Kangaroo Down,” we knew he was someone in the country world, but […]

Is Eric Church the new Springsteen? After singing about him, has he become him? Like the Boss, Church is hungry, and it’s more than his heart, but he hasn’t had his victory lap yet, maybe the time is now. Every successful act controls a gang. Known as its fanbase. Which is why classic rock artists […]