This is why you don’t get rid of gossip royalty! The New York Post must be hitting itself on the head for missing this scoop, which its former columnist/icon Liz Smith gave instead to New York Social Diary: the one and only Joni Mitchell might be performing a private concert in L.A. for the first time in years. Read More
Everybody needs to stop complaining about Chan Marshall. If I hear another person talk about how she has smoothed over the rough edges that made her so great and eradicated all the warts-and-all charm from her repertoire, I’m going to spit.
Just a year ago, after releasing the strongest album by far of her career, Read More
So the other day I get a call from Munich–a guy from the Sunday magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the big South German daily. He was inquiring about the rights to translate and reprint the Bob Dylan interview I did back in 1978, for Playboy , in time for Mr. Dylan’s 60th birthday on Read More
The hills are alive with the sounds of … new CD’s! Broadway is dead, and except for the newly mastered, digitally enhanced, spanking fresh re-release print of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece Rear Window , the movies that are opening now should never have opened at all. Music is the only thing that is getting me Read More
