Somewhere along the line, hit music became crossed with good music. It wasn’t good unless it was on the Top Forty, unless it sold. It wasn’t like this when I grew up. Your record collection was a badge of your identity. Each record hand-picked, you could divine where someone was coming from based on perusal […]

From: LUKEDADDY Subject: I have seen the future ! It’s not "NEW" It’s fucking VAN HALEN!! I was invited to a loose rehearsal for the new tour last night. It was NOT the "fab: dress rehearsal, it was one where in a big arena they were rehearsing for the upcoming tour. Now Ed and Al […]

Re: Hits Hey Bob, I’m sorta slow keeping up with you most of the time, but reading this post a couple days later made me think about an artist that came across the IODA radar this week that I think illustrates what you are saying in this post. Check this out: Andy Mckee – Guitar […]

Turn it on. Every casual listener I know is canceling his subscription. Then there are those who are diehards, who wouldn’t THINK of switching on FM, never mind AM, and don’t want to listen to iPods, because they never play anything you don’t KNOW! For a long time, I only listened to XM. But I’ve […]