1989 was a pivotal year for me: I had been DJing for a living for about six years and the lifestyle was killing my marriage, spirit and body – at 31 I felt and looked very old and worn out. I had come to question whether rock ‘n’ roll – …

I heard Gene Vincent’s 1956 coiled rockabilly great “Be Bop A Lula” on the radio this morning. It reminded me of something … December, 1989 – A woman came up to me while I was DJing at a Christmas party and asked me to work her upcoming 50th birthday party. …

Rolling Stone picks the 100 greatest guitarists of all time in the new issue coming out Friday: Late rock musicians Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman lead the list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Hendrix, who invariably tops such polls, …

Fox News, trounced and ridiculed in court and in the blogosphere (see Ernest Svenson’s analysis here), has dropped its lawsuit against Al Franken: The lawsuit had sought unspecified damages from Franken and Penguin Group, publisher of “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at …

Nine years after the “Trial of the Century,” O.J. Simpson talks to Playboy magazine: “I didn’t commit the crime. That is why I got off,” he said. “I feel in my heart that I got off because I was innocent. But I don’t know if I could have proven my …

Contrary to reports last week, Courtney Love’s mother Linda Carroll is denying that she is Marlon Brando’s daughter and that Courtney is Brando’s granddaughter: Linda Carroll, 59, became the focus of attention last week when a story surfaced in a London newspaper that Brando was Love’s grandfather by virtue of …

One of the recurring arguments that the music industry makes about its legal campaign against file sharers is that they can’t compete with free. This is, of course, crap, because you can compete with free with a superior product, service, convenience, etc. Now in the arena of DVR’s, TiVo must …

Animal House - a great film with an equally impressive soundtrack. BC Founder Eric Olsen details the songs.

Don’t look now, but the woman in the sidebar ad over there on the left for FriendSurfer.com just grew antennae with Christmas bulbs attached to them. I think I am more than six degrees separated from her.

One of the wildest, funniest movies of all time, a 25th anniversary version of National Lampoon’s Animal House comes out on DVD tomorrow with bonus material “Where Are They Now? A Delta Alumni Update,” “Did You Know That (Universal Animated Anecdotes),” and “The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion.” Animal House …