Lucas’ Presentation from SF MusicTech

As anyone following my Twitter stream knows, I flew in/out of SF on Monday for the SF MusicTech event. It was great, actually, I wish I’d had a little more time to hang out. Saw lots of smart folks and friends including Rob, Ethan, and Daniel from Songbird, Jeremy from Project Playlist, David Gratton from [...]

Joni Mitchell on Why She Retired in 2004

Photo © Robert Altman click here to visit Robert’s site Joni Mitchell retired in 2004. In a recent Mojo interview (the issue with Radiohead on the cover), she explained why: For much of my career, the public perception of my work was kind of underwhelmed, though I felt there was a lot of growth in [...]

Built To Spill @ The Echoplex This Weekend

Zoe and I are gearing up for what’s become a regular father/daughter outing: Built To Spill live. They’re playing at The Echoplex in LA this Friday and Saturday (with The Meat Puppets!). I haven’t been to this Echoplex joint yet, but not only will I be checking it out for the Built to Spill show, [...]

How to Make Pink Milk (a la Charlie and Lola)

We’ve never seen the TV show, but stopping over in Heathrow a few weeks back I picked up a couple “Charlie and Lola” books for Lucinda and we’ve been reading them daily ever since. As any reader of the book knows, Lola loves pink milk. Lucinda has never had pink milk. Until today. No, I [...]

M.O.P. Still Underrated and Changing Labels Yet Again

Speaking of M.O.P., what’s going on over there? They started out on Relativity, then went to Loud, Loud went under, M.O.P. moved to Rock-a-fella, released a greatest hits, then went to G-Unit and just left G-Unit without ever releasing a record? Huh? And what is Laze talking about between 50 and Fame? 50 was hatin’ [...]