Sayre BermanBilly JoelFriday, January 2, 2009 Hard Rock Live, HollywoodBeing a piano man in a rock 'n' roll world can be a precarious proposition. Unless you have the cool of, say Jerry Lee Lewis, with the attitude and swagger to match, it's tough not to look like a dweeb sitting stationary behind a keyboard while your band mates are posing, posturing and reaping adulation from the adoring masses. Even a one-time madcap like Elton John has his limitations. Strip away the wacky costumes and the
The last thing the world needs is another rant by some snooty music scribe who actually believes he can peg the next Coldplay or validate some MySpace wannabe. Don't worry; yours truly doesn't make any such presumptions. You won't find any holier-than-thou prognostications here -- just good new sounds worth checking out in the pop/rock/roots/Americana/singer-songwriter/whatever vein. These artists fly well below the radar, but here's some help with tracking their trajectories.The Matthew Herber
Foley: His mind is a terrible thing to wasteI don't know about you, but if I were planning to produce a radio talk show with a disgraced former Republican Congressman whose pedophilic Instant Messages to a 16-year-old page had made headline news a mere three years ago, I don't think I'd call my new radio program "inside the Mind of Mark Foley."Because that's a mind inside of which nobody much cares to linger. In fact, we remember too well exactly what's inside Foley's mind. It's a rare combin
