This is just about a number. Don’t get your knickers in a twist. All this discussion about distribution overshadows the real story in the business today, which is the music itself. We are in a crisis. All the major media is focusing on the Grammy awards when in truth there should be touring awards. The […]

This is not a harbinger of what’s to come, this is the last gasp of a dead paradigm. In other words, record reviews are history. We needed them. Because there was no way to hear most of the music. We needed guidance before we laid down our cold hard cash. And we got to the […]

I’m writing the below because I constantly interact with boomers online, especially doing podcasts, who are technologically impaired, even though they’re musicians and use Pro Tools. Boomers are all about the external, they’ve got an iPhone 15 and the latest MacBook Air, they tell you how much they know, but oftentimes they are clueless. If […]

PUBLICITY There must be a story, that first and foremost intrigues the writer who believes it will intrigue the reader, otherwise the effort is worthless. Many publicity people will take your money and they’ll send out mailings to people like me who will instantly delete them. If all you want is a listing that your […]