A long time ago, I didn’t know who David Bowie was. I was young, foolish, and in 8th grade. Without a drivers license, and desperate to “spread my wings,” I learned how to navigate the subway system. Now all of Boston was at my disposal, and I slowly mastered the city. My favorite place was a poster / merch shop called “Stairway to Heaven.” Incidentally...
Where is David Bowie?
Without going on and on and on about how last night’s Closing Ceremonies, what seemed oddest to me was the attention lavished on David Bowie. Don’t get me wrong, I love the guy. But where has he been lately? There’s no mentions of him in the press, no albums to promote, no tour dates, not even a TMZ style “hey-look-who-we-just-bumped-into-getting-dinner-at-Mr...
RIP Adam Yauch
When you’re a Jewish kid growing up in the suburbs, your choices are pretty slim. You like Billy Joel, you go to Hebrew School, you get braces, and you practice for your Bar Mitzvah. That’s pretty much all you get ’til you head off to college. For me, such was life. And it wasn’t a bad life by any means, but I found it kind of hard to look up to musicians that seemed...
Amoeba My Dreams
Snowpocalypse Now
The best thing you’ll see all day. Maybe all week…
So there’s all this hype and rumble around the new Elton John/Leon Russell album. Some love it, some hate it, and most agree it could’ve been better. I’ve been an Elton fan for a LONG time. In fact, I’ve seen him in concert 32 times. But the single greatest performance he ever gave, in my humble opinion, gets tragically overlooked. Below are a couple clips from his...
September Song…
The Summer’s Top Five Music Festivals
I’m a fan of lists. For no good reason I love hearing the best, worst, most likely to, or things you’d bring onto a desert island. It’s less about what’s on the list than it is about the process of deciding what makes it and what doesn’t. I swear I could spend hours debating whether or not “The Wall” is better than “Dark Side of the Moon” or...
Carole & James
For about a month now, I had been debating whether or not I should check out the “Troubadour Reunion” tour by James Taylor and Carole King. I’ve always wanted to see Carole King in concert, and she doesn’t really tour all that much — at least, she hasn’t played in Boston in a good long time. James Taylor, on the other hand, lives in Massachusetts, and he seems...