Archive for the 'The Music' Category


Rhinofy-American Gothic

Maybe I was too big a fan and was susceptible to anything remotely connected to Elton John. Or maybe it was the glowing review in "Rolling Stone". Or the hype that said it was the Album of the Year.
I bought "American Gothic" and dropped the needle and was completely confused. Bombastic, theatrical, it sounded like [...]

Ten Years Gone

I can see Jimmy play the guitar!
I stayed up all night April 30, 1975 listening to "Physical Graffiti", not because I wanted to, but it was my last night in Utah and the dope dealers across the street were the only people I knew still in town, everybody else had disappeared with the end of [...]

Rhinofy-The Samples

So my friend Cathy says she’s going to go to work for Rob Gordon at W.A.R.?
Huh?
You mean the guy who used to work in A&R at EMI, who started his own label? Those never went anywhere, not twenty years ago.
But then she unfolded the story of the Samples, how they left Arista and put their [...]

Electric Landlady

Spotify link - Electric Landlady

"we’ve grown accustomed to treating ‘the music industry’ as synonymous with a handful of large recording companies."Why We Shouldn’t Worry About The (Alleged) Decline Of The Music Industry

That’s from Timothy B. Lee’s report about Mike Masnick’s Midem presentation:
The Sky Is Rising: The Entertainment Industry Is Large & Growing… Not [...]