Most of my e-mail is from people hyping shoegazers.  White college graduates with thin voices supported by jangly guitars. And if I don’t like what’s being purveyed, I’m seen as being hopelessly out of touch. I’ve only ever gotten one e-mail about Mika, from an old buddy who told me his kids were gaga over […]

Tony Dimitriades sent me watermarked CDs, warning me they might not work in every player. That’s an understatement.  They froze my Mac.  Well, not the whole computer, just the disc drive, it was completely dead.  But helping a friend with this exact problem the week before, I knew there was a solution.  A bit of […]

I drove through a can of paint. Well, not exactly.  Someone else hit the can, I just drove through the detritus and told myself I was paranoid, that it was already dry, it wouldn’t stick to my car. But I was wrong. As soon as I got to a residential neighborhood, I pulled over, and […]

Rock and roll is a religion.  The records constitute a Bible, which provides a roadmap for living.  Illuminating what has come before, and delineating how one should proceed in the future. This is not the rock and roll of corporations, bastardizing tracks to tell tales of consumerism.  This is the rock and roll of the […]