4. Christina Aguilera "Back To Basics"This week: 100,740Cume: 581,996 Mmm… In the old days, the REALLY old days, of Fleetwood Mac’s "Rumours", you’d sell an album for a couple of years, off of endless hit singles. But now, you can’t count on even ONE hit single. You’ve got to prove yourself at Top Forty, no […]

In the not too distant future, so much of the music of the sixties and seventies is going to be forgotten.  I’d like to keep it alive. Last week’s podcast is about Gordon Lightfoot.  I tell the story of meeting him at Canadian Music Week with my buddy Jake Gold, but really most of the […]

If this were the future of music retailing, Wal-Mart would get out of the CD business because CDBaby eviscerated its revenue. Please, please, please, let us state now and for all time, the hardest thing to do in the music sphere is find good talent.  Just about all bands suck.  Ask the major labels, what’s […]

After flying all night from Santiago I just pulled my Crocs from my ski bag. You see you’re only allowed fifty pounds in your main bag.  So we ended up stuffing all kinds of accoutrements in our ski bags.  On the way down, my Crocs rode in my TravelPro, but on the way back they […]