I almost went to the country Coachella, i.e. Stagecoach. How did country music become rock and roll?  Oh, they’re bitching about real country being squeezed off the airwaves by this pop sound, but this pop sound is close to what we listened to in the seventies, when acoustic guitars weren’t only for unplugged shows. How […]

So we’re in the dressing room and Tom and Joni Mitchell are discussing open tunings. Tom had just finished up the first set with "Panama Limited", a compilation of Bukka White numbers.  And Tom and Joni were reminiscing about the days back in Detroit, when they met, when the old blues men were still revered, […]

Just tell them BORIS SENT YOU! It had a white label.  At least that’s how I remember it. My mother bought our earliest 45s.  She got a kick out of "Big Girls Don’t Cry", "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" and "Purple People Eater".  But I bought "Loco-Motion" and "Monster Mash". It was […]

If you have not seen this yet, please do so promptly.  Fascinating. Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ Famous Toby Mamis Shove this up your ass Bubble Boy. What bugged me about Will Pugh’s e-mail is his denigration of a 200,000 member core audience.  He was worried without the bubble stunt […]