Blogs
The Road to Christmas
Some quickies: – Monday night while I was DJ’ing a Christmas party at the Saint, someone came up and told me to “pump the bass” on “Christmas Time is Here” […]
Singles Going Steady
Today at HuffingtonPost.com, producer Don Was busts iTunes for not including liner notes or production information. In it, he talks about how life-affecting the liner notes for Frank Zappa’s Freak […]
New Lil Wayne: “6’7”
Lil Wayne’s been out of prison for a month, so it’s no surprise that the prolific rapper already has a new single – “6’7″”. If there’s any news, it’s that […]
Mimickry in the Spirit of the Season
Last night, our lack of memory of Will Farrell movies cost us the win at 45 Tchoup’s Monday night trivia, but I’m not holding it against him. In the spirit […]
State Secrets?
It was nice to finally be able to relax during the fourth quarter of a Saints game this season, though some were a little too relaxed. Mass exodus with 10 […]
A Christmas Lesson
Today I ran across this: I waited with great anticipation for Not So Silent Night: Christmas with REO Speedwagon because I thought “this is it, this is gonna rock the Yuletide.” But […]
The Weekend’s Highs and Lows
The Highs: – Went to the opening night party for DesCours, and while none of the sites were open, a piece installed in the DesCours HQ promised good things. So […]
The End of an Era
[Updated] This weekend, the Mother-in-Law Lounge is closing for the last time. As Antoinette K-Doe’s daughter, Betty Fox, wrote: Hello everyone first I would like to thank all of the […]
The Strength to Say No
It’s impossible for me to hear Bruce Springsteen’s The Promise in a vacuum. The album’s subtitled “The Lost Sessions: Darkness on the Edge of Town,” and it’s two discs of […]
Where Did I Come From?
In the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there was a computer terminal that helped trace the influences that led to a given band. Nirvana, it said, was the product […]
