Mick Jagger once said “I’d rather be dead than sing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m 45.” The Rolling Stones front man is now 69 years old, and is now seeing why most musicians give out a tad earlier than he has: it seems the Rolling Stones are really struggling to sell out their American tour.

On May 3, the band failed to sell out the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The Guardian is reporting that they’ll have to take a pay cut in lieu of hurt sales across the United States. Personally,  we think this is just what happens when your audience is too old to leave the home anymore. The Rolling Stones could’ve left on top a number of times over the past twenty five years, but chose not to. We’re not rooting against them, but maybe this will mean there won’t be another awful new song from an older band this year.

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Dan Bogosian

I finished school with a music theory degree. Before I finished school, I was a janitor. You really should apologize to all the janitors you've ever had. You hurt them. Seriously. You did.

But, now that we've cleared that up and you called your high school janitor, know that I quit being a janitor to pursue writing about music. So here I am, and here you are, and hey how are you?

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