It’s difficult to be scornful as I know what it’s like to sit behind the controls on major programming, but CBS cutting away from the Billy Joel concert in the *middle* of Piano Man is poor, poor timing. It wasn’t even live, it was a pre-tape! That’s an inexcusably bad call.

Mets win on Doc Gooden number retirement day can mean only one thing*: MEATBALLS

(*meatballs were going to happen regardless)

The terms for copyright spans should be shortened, with one major caveat — if your intent is to make a cheap pos slasher film using a piece of IP, the copyright in that case extends for 8,000 years since original publication of work.

Best part about this No Doubt set at Coachella is that you can tell in Tony Kanal's mind that, at least for the next hour, the years 2003-2023 don't exist.

'Industry plant' is a tired/trite argument (spoiler alert: labels tend to spend $$ promoting the artists they sign), but it doesn't help the case that for the entirety of the push behind Ice Spice, no one has yet bothered to teach her how to have any sense of stage presence.

Should reinvest the $$ they save on this into improving original music production.

The trick is: don't reinvent the wheel. Jim Johnston wasn't afraid to admit where he drew inspiration from, and his themes resonate still to this day. But the music needs to improve.

Benefits of watching the Coachella livestream instead of actually going to Coachella:

- not down $1200 a ticket
- don’t have to avoid boarding a Boeing aircraft to California
- less of a chance of assaulting a trust fund kid who swears his Bored Ape NFT is due for a bounceback

An unsung hero in their catalog, and perhaps the darkest Rush album there is. Listen to it. It may hold as much meaning today as it did then.

No joke. Metallica’s cover of “Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” from the Gershwin night in DC last month should be released as a single & worked to Classic Rock radio. It’s that good.

no Starbucks app, today is not my day

Old: tech bros invented the bus, again

New: pop stars inventing the album, again

Even prior to Tegan & Sara you have:

Bronski Beat
Erasure
Pet Shop Boys …

It’s apparent she’s desperate to shed her Kidz Bop image but Siwa needs to do her homework first.

I’m not gonna lie at first I thought this said Izzy Moreno vs Jack Harlow & I said “Good. Kick his ass. ‘Come Home the Kids Miss You’ was a horrible album.”

Awful disgusting Braves fans.

*starts to rain*

Awful disgusting wet Braves fans.

I’m all for protecting intellectual property, but it’s amusing when the copyright strike comes not from the behemoth megaband, but from the smaller act that quite frankly could use added exposure.

Really don't want to be in the business of defending Morgan Wallen, but throwing a chair off a roof would've been considered amateur hour back in the '70s. I mean Keith Moon once drove a car into a swimming pool.

This man looked at the eclipse with no eye protection. Hopefully you knew better.

Drew McIntyre tried to go into business with CM Punk & ends up getting screwed over.

Tony Khan: Sounds about right.

There are some days where I feel pleasantly fulfilled; yet others feel like I’m living in exile. What’s real is that I still have plenty of gas left in the tank. Maybe it’s time to start revving the engine more.

We're almost at that point now; 'check out my podcast' has become so ubiquitous I feel like a doofus every time I try & promote the one I do. But -- much like the peak of the blogging era, it'll regress, leaving only those both a) dedicated & b) talented enough. It'll level out.