Monthly Archives: February 2012
Springsteen’s “Wrecking Ball”
“Hold tight to your anger, don’t fall to your fears.” http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=1387743 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – Bruce Springsteen: Wrecking Ball 2/27/12 – Video – http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com. via Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – Bruce Springsteen: Wrecking Ball 2/27/12 – Video … Continue reading
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Getting Ready for the Wrecking Ball
Bruce Springsteen releases his new album Wrecking Ball March 6, and the transmedia promotional machine is in gear. His fan site Backstreets has been streaming tracks through Soundcloud all week. Next week will be Boss week at Late Night With … Continue reading
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Fowley on Queens
I’m heading out to interview Kim Fowley and Snow Mercy, his latest protege, and I’m getting ready for the usual mix of outrage, vulgarity, and intelligence. Here’s something Kim told me last year, about the Runaways album Queens of Noise: … Continue reading
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Ford + Currie
According to Blabbermouth.net, Cherie Currie and Lita Ford are speaking again. BLABBERMOUTH.NET – Former THE RUNAWAYS Singer Reconnects With LITA FORD After More Than 30 Years. via BLABBERMOUTH.NET – Former THE RUNAWAYS Singer Reconnects With LITA FORD After More … Continue reading
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Chris Brown’s Second Act
I tied really hard to be objective in reporting this. The Times asked me to help them out in their Grammys/Whitney pinch. This is the assignment I got handed. Tweeting was more fun. Grammys 2012: Chris Brown rises with … Continue reading
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Grammys Tweeting
It was a great honor to be part of the LA Times‘s Grammy Tweeters this evening. I was hard pressed to keep up with the wit of this crop of scribes.
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Whitney Houston RIP
I’ve been thinking a lot about fame lately, and how it seems to benefit the fan more than the artist. Case in point: The sad life, and now death, of Whitney Houston. Whitney Houston, 48, found dead in Beverly … Continue reading
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