Maybe you’ve got to die to get your due. I’m sitting in front of my Mac watching the Masters on my Slingbox and downloading music from the Internet.  Was gonna write about these great alternative takes of the Beach Boys’ "’Til I Die" until I heard this. When I was twenty one I lived in […]

It’s a gorgeous day in L.A.  Hell, that’s why I live here.  And I’m getting on to the freeway and I hear REO’s "Keep On Loving You", which I never liked, but today it sounds good.  Seemed like a ploy for acceptance by housewives from an AOR band that just could not get traction, despite […]

Rebecca Black ‘Friday’ For Orchestra #53 This is hysterical in its own right and requires no further comment or explanation, but I’m gonna give one! It’s all about context.  You don’t want to function in a vacuum.  You want to give your audience tools so they can participate and get hooked.  In other words, the […]

Sometimes you only have to hear a record once. And this I heard on the only rock station in Salt Lake City.  It was entitled "Dog Days".  There was a moodiness that always appeals to me, but mostly it was the vocalist, and the chorus: The dog days were scorchersSouthern torture Living out of a […]