And they say rock is dead… Baby boomers are overwhelmed with choice, and no longer living in the hot house of high school they’re clueless as to what to listen to, they want good new music but they turn on the radio and wince, and there’s no trustworthy recommendation engine. But if these people who […]

And here’s where I take the risk I accuse Springsteen of refusing to take below. What I wrote about the Boss’s single ain’t bad, but it doesn’t pop, it doesn’t zing. But the P.S. positively rocks. So I’m gonna put it first: P.S. Watch this clip of Jackson Browne singing a newly-written protest song at […]

What do they call them, guilty pleasures? Recordings have finally been disconnected from careers. Did you catch Troy Carter tear SoundScan a new asshole in Friday’s L.A. "Times"? Billboard’s sales-chart tweaks not a hit with everyone You’ve got to read Bill Werde’s response, it’s priceless. ‘It’s probably smart business to make sure as many people […]

I never saw the movie. But I bought the soundtrack. Elton John was a phenomenon, that occurred while I was away experiencing the first semester of my freshman year of college. In 1970, Middlebury, Vermont was a dead zone. Not only were there no cell phones, but there was no cable TV and no DVDs, […]