Tag: music
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Pete Townsend reviews Kurt Cobain's diaries
“Hope I die before I become Pete Townsend,” wrote Cobain in his diary. Pete doesn’t seem offended so much as saddened in his review of the just-published journals of the suicidal muse of the ’90s. It is desperately sad for me to sit here, 57 years old, a huge chunk of life still ahead of…
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Jam Master Jay, R.I.P.
Jam Master Jay, né Jason Mizell, was shot by two gunmen at a NY recording studio, cops say. He was 37.
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Beck with Flaming Lips tonight on Conan
My old buddy JG turned me on to Flaming Lips (finally) and when they added a second Beck opened for and backed by the Lips show, we got tickets, so I’m psyched about that. Yoshimi reminds me a little of OK Computer, but it’s hugely catchy and grooving. I can’t remember the last time I…