While you’re counting Coldplay CDs, made by a guy married to a movie star with a daughter with the moniker of a fruit, while Eminem is tanking in the live marketplace, while the media is fixated on a mutilated, aged pop star, you’re missing the biggest music story of the year, the Mars Volta. By […]

1. Coldplay "X& Y"CapitolSales this week: 740,331Debut Enough with the circle jerk.  This is what’s WRONG with the music business today.  When cocktail music made for people whose hormones are no longer raging is trumpeted as quality reincarnate.  There’s nothing wrong with Coldplay, hell, I can even tolerate Chris Martin’s whining…it’s just that there’s not […]

I came to the Doobie Brothers late.  I couldn’t like them.  I was in college, they made hits.  But what sealed it was that month in Mammoth when I heard "What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits" along with "Physical Graffiti" every day.  That’s what’s great about people who buy music who aren’t addicted.  They’re […]

If you think anybody under the age of twenty cares about Michael Jackson, you’re sadly mistaken. Michael Jackson had his hits twenty years ago.  Not that he’s left the public eye.  He’s endured so many plastic surgeries as to contest Jocelyn Wildenstein as the scariest human on the planet.  Oh, some of his music was […]