Tag: music

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…