It’s almost impossible to find a CD in my house. Driving down Chautauqua just shy of midnight, down from Will Rogers, where I’d gone hiking to clear my mind, we spoke on the phone.  As I cruised up PCH, back towards Santa Monica, the conversation elated me, everything was right in the world. After stopping […]

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 […]