POPPING OFF

Your music industry reporting is a nauseating failure--precisely because it’s always raw industry information, and very infrequently about the music or the musicians themselves.

Sadly, the focus is usually on dollars, chart rankings, marketing strategies, career angles and trend identification. What a heinous bore! One sentence about what kind of guitar Courtney Love likes to play is worth 50 paragraphs about how many units “Celebrity Skin” is projected to sell.

Get a brain, a heart and a life.

ROBERT BROCK

Newport Beach