You don’t have to look to gospel for songs with “God” in the title. I’m not a religious guy, and I have 9 hours of God songs just in my digital playlist […]
Deep Cuts: God Songs
Deep Cuts: Songs for Stars
Los Angeles is a great place to be young and starstruck. You might meet a future Oscar winner at your cruddy day job, or get hit on by a faded star at […]
On Diffuser: The Roots of Indie – Saturday Night Live
What the heck does Saturday Night Live have to do with the rise of alt-indie music? To paraphrase Bill Clinton, it’s the musical guests, stupid. For every One Direction that appears on […]
Deep Cuts: Saturday Songs
Kicking around Westwood on Saturdays was a weird little adventure, but that’s what Saturdays are for. Whether you’re a kid or an adult, Saturdays are the only free day on the board. […]
206. Drive-In Saturday
A little furniture and some pocket money didn’t really change anything. Every day Jody withdrew more deeply into some dark place where I wasn’t welcome. Lately I’d been finding scraps of paper […]
Deep Cuts: Car Songs
Los Angeles is a car town, and having my groovy little MG back felt good. Sure, it broke down if you looked at it, but it looked great and that’s all that […]
204. Sittin’ On Top of the World
John gave me a raise. Thanks to Tales From the Crypt I was now bringing home $500 per week, double what I made at Music Plus. Combined with Jody’s talent agency salary […]
From The Stacks: Lesbian Concentrate – A Lesbianthology of Songs and Poems
What the heck do lesbians and orange juice have in common? Fair question.
From The Stacks: A Midnight Christmas Mess
Rock and roll Christmas songs. Elvis recorded “Blue Christmas” back in ’57. Only one Beatle never released a Christmas song (know which one? Leave a comment). Bruce, Elton, Bowie — even Lemmy […]
Deep Cuts: Special Guest Stars
Special guest stars make everything better, right? It’s why I always invite Bill Bixby to my holiday dinners. Don’t give me that “I’m dead” crap, Bill, it never stops my uncle Steve […]
Why It Matters 