Live: Given the choice between giving U2 the benefit of the doubt, and just about anybody else the benefit of the doubt, I would undoubtedly go with anybody else… which doesn’t mean I’m right. For the eight nights at Madison Garden, still in mid-residency, U2 did many things better than they have before but is it enough? Meanwhile, Young Fathers were enough.
Recorded:I went on a 1970s kick yesterday -some really great soul music in 1972.
Rock And Roll Truths: Patrick Stickles in the New York Times: “Do I mind that we were sold a bankrupt dream in the boom days of the late ’90s major-label gold rush? When we went down that road that we’re still on, more than half our lives later? And now we find out that it’s basically impossible? Yeah, it sucks for sure.
Death: Bobbi Kristina Brown, the 22 year old daughter of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, died at the age of 22 from a drug overdose. So sad. Also: “Ragtime” novelist EL Doctorow and “Always On My Mind” songwriter Wayne Carson also passed.
Sports: The Yanks took two of three from the Twins, have a new potential phenom in Nathan Eovaldi, are firmly in first place in the division and 13 games over .500. Maybe they don’t need another pitcher.