Monica said she just recorded it in Spanish. What was the name of the track again? “Maybe It’s You.” Don’t know it. But then twenty minutes later it came up again, and this time I heard it correctly, she sang IT MIGHT BE YOU! It took just that long for the synapses to fire, to […]

I’m losing status at the high school I used to think that it was my school They say it’s the greatest time of your life. Hogwash! If you were a cheerleader, captain of the football team…if you were popular in high school chances are you were not part of the rock revolution. No, I’m not […]

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where a single track trumps an entire rock festival? One in which Daft Punk releases its new single on the second weekend of Coachella. Not that the two are not intertwined. But that’s the power of music, that’s the power of one recorded track. […]

Don’t call it a guilty pleasure. Just admit it’s great music. Kind of like the Carpenters’ “Yesterday Once More.” I hated the Carpenters on principle, they were MOR in an era that was positively rock. And then I drove around all summer doing my job for the City Directory and listening to the AM-only radio […]