FISTFULAYEN

photo from n.ramirez’s Flickr stream Too busy to write much this week. I was going to write something about seeing Built To Spill do Perfect From Now On at The Troubadour last night but really, just too much work to dig out of. I can’t help but post this, though: DJ Rogers wanting to be [...]

A few weeks back, Echo Music‘s CEO Mark Montgomery wrote an open letter in response to my inclusion in Bob Lefsetz’ “Mid-Year Power Top Ten”. If you read the comments you’ll see I responded and invited Marko to lunch when he’s next in LA. To his credit, he took me up on it and we [...]

Ethan Kaplan guests on Hypebot breaking down the six Web sites they created to promote and encompass REM’s latest release. I admit I’ve never been an REM fan so the art is a bit lost on me, but I appreciate the approach. The use of technology built by someone else, from Drupal to Twitter, is [...]

While I’m a fan of Zack I admit I’ve never really been into Rage Against The Machine (though I did see them open for Cypress Hill in Flint Michigan in the early 90s). But this is really inspiring: L.A. Times has the story. While we’re talking politics, this pretty much sums up partisan punditry, no? [...]