Just found this, though it’s an older post:  Michael Koppelman’s PodCasts about his time working with Prince. Koppelman was the engineer on a bunch of great Prince tracks but also had the misfortune to be behind the desk on some of the really weak...

Prince.org has a great interview entitled "ALAN LEEDS – THE QUESTIONS, THE ANSWERS & MORE BESIDES….", with some terrific insights from Alan Leeds, former tour manager for Prince, James Brown, and D’Angelo, among others. He’s also...

Having just watched chapters 1-12 of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet, here’s a list of the best words in the saga: Rubber Spatula Allergic Blessed Woo-ooo-woo-ooo (siren...

I’m delighted to see the Smoking Gun’s "Blasphemy In A Bottle" story. "Journalist" Dawn Westlake of CBS, who has covered the Michael Jackson trial extensively, is now cashing in by making a wine called Jesus Juice. Bet they didn’t...

Mariah Carey killed her career by divorcing her boss and making a shitty movie, and then she gets to come back because she’s filling the void left by Bone Thugs and Harmony’s absence? I am clearly getting too old to follow pop...

It’s really weird that after years of kicking around the industry Lewis Taylor finally shows up, apparently charting in some places. It’s even been enough that I finally signed up for MySpace so I could follow what’s going on there… The record is his...

It’s like the whole web was made for Ben’s indulgence. This week at Slate, Judd Apatow’s Diary. The best part? He loves "Being Bobby Brown",...

Link: Finally, the wine bar is raised – Los Angeles...

The amount of information, especially in the song database, at the unofficial home of Morris Day & THE TIME is pretty amazing. I love resources like...

Why do I love LiveJournal? Because you find things like "Who’s your favorite faux Christian ex-rock star?". A sad tale of Scott Stapp’s decline into c-list tail-chasing. Proceeds from the sale of Denny’s Grand Slam Breakfasts do not go to...

I’m really enjoying "A LETTER TO PRINCE ROGERS NELSON." Newbie thinks that the fansite is run by Prince himself, hilarity ensues. Big bonus points to the second commenter, making good use of one of Prince’s promo...

Man, the best of Lauryn Hill mix tape is so good that it’s a fucking shame she’s batshit, Tom Cruise-crazy now. Come back, Lauryn, stop making wack songs and smokin’ that pipe! Nobody’s fallen off harder since King...

Okay, this is a  pretty funny record review. Although I figure people who are still in their "listening to NIN" phase would enjoy the...

Now that Jay has confessed to listening to Will Smith, I can too. First, there’s a few things to know. I still hold out hope that Will’s going to make a great album, because he still hangs out with Jazzy Jeff, and Jeff makes great records, and maybe...

OMG, Best Television Film Movie about Sharks and Bikinis ever! Spring Break Shark Attack had the Tiffany Network showering us with blood, gore, slutty spring breakers, gratuitous ass shots, and bad acting. This is the best (also, only) TV movie I...

This is second only to that "Biggie and Tupac start making out in hell" story that was posted on alt.hiphop.fanfic.slash the other...

More proof that the New York Times is the best paper in the world: A Fake Michael Jackson’s Big Break: A Fake Trial. This important piece of journalism covers Edward Moss’s on-camera transformation into the King of Pop. Apparently, you have to do it...

One of the great revelations of this AP story on Kevin Federline is that Kevin’s second child with Shar Jackson is named "Kaleb Michael Jackson Federline". Now, it’s possible, given that Shar’s last name is Jackson, that the young boy is...

The impressive thing isn’t that Sky News has a Michael Jackson Trial Channel. The impressive thing is the order of the navigation on the left side of their news...

Left and Right: D’Angelo and O.D.B. Proving my theory incorrect, D’Angelo hasn’t actually become so unpopular that he can’t get arrested. And, worse, he got fat! D, you can’t go and get fat! The ladies need to have your abs to think about!...

I don’t know how the Boston Globe publishes this, since it ain’t hardly news, but "Ashlee Simpson’s career comes courtesy of Daddy dearest". Dear Joe Simpson: I know, since you’re a pathological bastard with likely infanticidal tendencies...

From Entertainment Weekly’s Entertainers of the Year: For Prince, the best part of his ’04 triumph was that it was all about the music, not about marketing or his celebrity. ”It surpasses the Purple Rain tour. This was self-generated hype: no movie,...

The Online Film Critics Society has its list of the 100 most overlooked films of the 90s and doesn’t include Boomerang!...

Good to see Michael keeping his spirits up at holiday...

From the Star Tribune, "When Prince tours, he’s king". Madonna generated more tour revenue than Prince in 2004, but only ’cause she was willing to gouge her fans. Who knew Prince was bigger than Toby Keith? Only...

In what’s become an annual holiday tradition at Michael’s Neverland Ranch, the cops turned the joint upside down again. Ho ho...

GQ has a range of different celebrities fawn over Prince. From Jermaine Dupri: "I remember when I was 8, Prince was opening for Rick James, and my mother was getting baptized, but she had to see Prince, so we left church early so my mom could...

Since the Commons is going to Minneapolis, it might make sense to read Prince’s thoughts on maintaining control of one’s intellectual...

You want me to ROCK YOUR BODY?...

This just in: geeky white guys with blogs like indie rock! Me? I like music made by machines and/or black folks. Call me...

I am boundlessly amused that the "bloggers fact-checking the Eye’s ass" circle-jerk has reached its nadir: Courtesy of Poynter.org, two thousand and seven hundred words on how long Placido Domingo’s longest round of applause lasted. I wish...

For your amusement, the Michael Jackson...

I won’t be in NYC to see it myself, but you might want to check out the Prince movie marathon that’s coming...

In what may be a first for media of any type, at any time, I have found a positive review of Under the Cherry Moon. I love the movie, but I still think this kind of praise is really...

Milking the “controversy” over Cinnamon Girl for all it’s worth, the local Twin Cities press talks to the guys who made the video. If nothing else, they should be commended for making the first Prince video in 10 years that doesn’t look like he did...

As is to be expected now that you can get paid a nickel for sending people to the iTunes store, there’s a blog that sifts through iTMS and links to highlights. Asian Mack‘s got pretty good taste. (And it’s powered by...

I find it oddly comforting that MC Hammer’s wikipedia page is not only completely updated, but clearly written by a fan who’s only papered the thinnest veneer of objectivity on their fawning writeup of Hammer’s career. Beautiful. Also fun is watching...

Just for my own reference, I wanted to bookmark my favorite online music store, which I always forget the name of: SLCD,...

McSweeney’s asks the important questions. I got 100%...

Pegged to the release of Depeche Mode’s remix set, the Guardian offers a history of the remix that, predictably, skews white and British but is still pretty good anyway. Also, Depeche Mode: Please stop releasing the same songs over and over. I...

How bad does the Wall Street Journal’s editorial judgement suck? I will show you! OpinionJournal, home to James “he whom I asked to kiss my brown ass” Taranto, has posted an editorial which bravely defends "Let’s Get Retarded", the original...

Well, that raises the bar from “has his own sneaker line” in the rapper-as-mogul sweepstakes: Jay-Z’s in the running for president of Def Jam. 50’s gonna want a city renamed after...

The sad truth is that I am the only person in this airport lounge right now who’s really enjoying Janet Jackson’s Nasty. Part of it is because these people around me are boring. The other part of the reason is because I read this amazing history of...

Every once in a while, the random shuffle kicks up "Breathe On Me", off of Britney’s In The Zone, and the song makes me terrifically sad, even though it’s not that bad. Why, you ask? Well, because this song is clearly the sound of Mark...

I’m starting to reconcile myself to the fact that I actually still enjoy a number of R. Kelly songs, but it is while listening to his exhortations at the beginning of the "Step in the Name of Love" remix that I have trouble accepting. Mr....

Current number of days that Michael McDonald’s "I Keep Forgettin’" has been stuck in my head:...

I could never figure out exactly why I liked Alicia Keys’ “You Don’t Know My Name” so much. I mean, it’s a fine song, featuring beautiful production by Kanye West. And it just popped into my head the other day… Back when I was about 18, I was just...

Sweet funky instrumentals. There’s the Commodore’s "Machine Gun", Barry White’s "Love’s Theme". There’s a whole bunch of almost vocal-free tracks, like Average White Band’s "Pick Up the Pieces", Kool and the Gang’s...

It’s really unseemly how much we’re enjoying watching Nelly’s “Search for Miss Applebottom” on VH1. It’s basically an entire show about Nelly looking at women’s asses, ostensibly searching for models for his Applebottom line of jeans. Highlight thus...

I grieve for Mandy Moore. The poor girl has been unfairly lumped in with lesser lights of girl pop stardom, barely staying above Willa Ford levels of obscurity. In a just world, Jessica Simpson’s idiocy would be punished by failure and Mandy Moore...

CBS had planned to air their Michael Jackson Number Ones special earlier, but delayed the airing after his arrest and waited until he’d sat down with 60 Minutes. They finally got the show on the air tonight, and its format is more interesting than...

The whole point of funk music is finding a groove and working it, but too many really funky songs quit just as they’re getting started. Stevie Wonder is especially guilty of this in the recorded versions of his songs, and many other songs are only...

There’s a little promotional page for Prince’s new live DVD up, and you can download some sound and video clips there. I’ll probably write up more of a review later, but in short the DVD, while entertaining, doesn’t really do justice to the live show...

I’m listening to the (12 years old!) track “Latifah’s Had It Up 2 Here”, and my mind is thoroughly boggled that the interceding years have left the Queen as an Oscar nominee, TV star, and pretty much a household name. I’d have figured, as her music...

I suppose it should just be a music TypeList so I can mention it, but holy crap the hook on Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love” is working. It’s a sample from the Chi-Lites’ “Are You My Woman”, which is not that great a song. (The Chis are known for their...

Today I had a Patrick Swayze song stuck in my head. It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened in all of human...