That was FANTASTIC! Metallica lacked the bottom, that visceral pounding on your chest that you get at a live gig.  They proved conventional wisdom, that rock and roll doesn’t work on TV. I stumbled into last night’s 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert during Paul Simon.  When Crosby & Nash joined him […]

Consider this a public service announcement. I broke from this screen to watch the final "Curb Your Enthusiasm".  Talk about being nostalgic… The nineties were a lost decade for me.  My ex moved out in ’89, just when "Seinfeld" began.  I was a comedy nut, I’d seen all the stand-ups on late night TV, even […]

I’m always anxious about overloading your inbox, but… Although you can’t stream the Amchitka album from the site I referenced, a bit of sleuthing turned up a stream of this, Joni singing "Carey" into Dylan’s "Mr. Tambourine Man" on EW’s site. This is great, but not quite as good as the more introspective "A Case […]

Next month Taylor Swift will be twenty.  She’s already had her heart broken, but she’s not quite aware how complicated and confusing life truly is, how you can seemingly be on top of the world and commit suicide, like Freddie Prinze, how you can be almost broke, but be beamingly happy. But Taylor does know […]