Tequila champ

You can't always blame the music industry for shoving lame music down our throats. Witness: "skank-pop" is ruling the day on the entirely voluntary MySpace.com too, in the form of Tila Tequila and others. Thirty-one million visits, nearly four million plays of her top song, and thirty thousand streams so far today. Wow. She's terrible.

I'll say it again: When I hear the word MySpace, I reach for my volume control.


FMFM: A series of late-60s-early-70s Kinks records, lately. Sometimes I wonder how it's taken me so long to get to Ray Davies' best material. Probably I've just been distracted by their (excellent) earlier hits; the radio doesn't really play much from the 1966-1971 era anyway, except for "Lola" and "Victoria" and maybe one or two more. I know that the Kinks have become icons to a certain strain of indie-rockers, and while I haven't found the ambitious concept albums to be pure gold, I must say that certain trophy-winning pieces such as "This Time Tomorrow" and "Shangri-La" and "Arthur" do seem to be grossly neglected by the larger pop audience.