I hate people. Like the PR person who e-mailed to hip me to a story in the "New York Times" reflecting her ethnicity…  It turned out the act profiled was on her label. Like my next door neighbor.  Who thinks you deserve silence living in the city. Like the people who e-mail me to tell […]

As you will remember, my Inno only caught the latter half of my XM show on the Loft last month.  Well, I just received CD copies of my appearance, and here’s what I left out. 1. "Spring Is Here"Wendy Waldman They’ve got this giant library at XM.  Where they have full-time employees feeding in data, […]

I went to the Universal Amphitheatre, it will always be the Universal Amphitheatre to me, last night. We used to salivate, waiting for the two page announcement in the Sunday Calendar section of the "Los Angeles Times".  The bookings for the cut in the hill open air bowl where music THRIVED in the seventies.  "Miles […]

I’ve come to learn that I’m not the only person who holds "Ten Years Gone" close to their heart, who ranks it as their favorite Led Zeppelin track.  Its magic is the weeping, almost acoustic guitar.  It’s the mood.  It doesn’t exist on the usual continuum, it’s not something you ever heard on the radio, […]