Waking Ear

Tori Amos/"New Age" -- The raucous Velvet cover from Strange Little Girls. I got the latest issue of Rolling Stone today, and it has the "Women in Rock" on the cover. Apparently "Women in Rock" includes Britney, Shakira, Mary J. Blige, Alanis, Avril and Ashanti. Now, say what you will about any of these performers (I love Mary J., Shakira is my guilty pleasure and the rest I can live without), but isn't there something missing here? OK, I really did give up on RS years ago, and only got this subscription because it was free with my cellphone plan, but I'll be damned if they didn't go and get me pissed off all over again. Didn't this magazine once actually rock? Or was that just a myth?

So anyway, the subhed on the magazine cover does indeed mention Tori Amos, Sleater-Kinney and "13 Other Queens of the New Age." And that's why Tori's cover is in my head.

Blogging has been light, and will continue to be light, on this site this week. I'll try to keep up as best as I can, but it's just going to be busy. Please have patience and feel free to comment away.