My favorite Neil Young album is the very first, the eponymous one, the one that was re-released with a new mix not long after it hit the marketplace (you can tell the difference by the front cover, if the picture takes up the whole cover, it’s the old, wrong one, if there’s the name "Neil […]

I saw the Dave Matthews Band open for Phish at the Santa Monica Civic. I do what Chip tells me.  He’d told me I had to come see Phish at the Variety Arts Center and I’d watched them blow up.  The DMB was his new band. I didn’t know that the Santa Monica Civic had […]

I’m sitting here at Shutters listening to the new AC/DC album on Steve Barnett’s MacBook Air. To tell you the truth, I usually avoid this.  What are you going to say as the label head watches you listen to his baby.  But after discussing the Wal-Mart deal at lunch, hearing all about the plans for […]

Driving home this eveningCould’ve sworn we had it all worked out How does that cut?  LIKE A KNIFE! I heard on Highway 16 that Kenny Chesney had his own XM radio station, up on channel 18.  I dialed in, and I heard Dave Matthews’ "Where Are You Going", Little River Band’s "Cool Change" and "Cuts […]