The chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting is a deeply scary man.[…]
MECHA-STREISAND VS. NEIL DIAMOSAUR: FITE! Fred Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits: “Gary Guthrie was a particularly astute disk jockey. While spinning records for his AKY-FM show in Louisville, Kentucy, he realized that not only had[…]
THE AVALANCHES – “Live on Radio One at Ibiza, 4/8/01” After a straightforward tour of Carribbean rhythms, and before a totally righteous collision of The Jackson Sisters, Madonna, Bob Dylan and the Avalanches themselves, the most co[…]
ASHANTI — “Foolish” Like Usher’s “U Got It Bad,” redolent of nothing more than mid-album filler, this song betrays no clue why it would go #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Unlike Usher, it’s actively irritating o[…]
“Great music, like all great art, should transcend its time.” Serious people, like philosophers and poets, say things like this because they believe great art enters human beings into communion with the categorical — Truth and Beaut[…]
PHIL KLINE – UNSILENT NIGHT The streets of New York, a cold winter night, and a whole lot of boomboxes playing pre-recorded tapes of a million swirly tinkles. This is either the corniest minimalism or the wryest new age you’ll ever hear. […]
I’ve been falling asleep to it for the last few weeks. It’s near-random tinkles of glockenspiel, piano and flute. You keep expecting the tinkles to fall into the void, it’s so slow and lovely. At first I thought: this is music for […]
Janelle Brown, “Death of a pop princess in the making“: the inevitable “Aaliyah’s dead, so what?” articles arrive. The public mourning for Aaliyah seems hyped and manufactured, because, after all, “was her music re[…]
Hi, I’m Michael Daddino. Starting at 6AM, June 21st, and continuing for 24 hours, I will chronicle one day’s worth of MTV — videos, karaoke, Real World episodes, screaming teenagers, wrestling and Mandy Moore — blogging my imp[…]
Lee Munson is like a lot of people I don’t know, those creepy villians who commute to Wall Street everyday wearing clothes worth more than their souls. Music content: “Did I pay for half a fucking Scorpions song? Yes or no? No! If I paid […]