Joel Sill: I don’t know if you knew him but Joel Dorn died this morning. He went to his doctor’s office with an eye pain and collapsed with a massive heart attack that took him. If you didn’t know Joel you missed something. He was one of a kind. He traveled his own road but […]

 Did you read Rich Greenfield’s report on A&R? This guy is on a tear. Seemingly every week this Pali Research analyst tears the major labels a new asshole. It would have to be an outsider, because those involved in the business are convinced their shit doesn’t stink. But it does. In his most recent report, […]

 My feet are finally coming back to life. When I was eleven, my mother and father took me to Mohawk Mountain, in West Cornwall, Connecticut. It wasn’t planned, it wasn’t discussed, my father just came home from work and suggested it to my mother and off we went. I’m not sure what my dad was […]

Did you ever sing in the Glee Club? I tried out in seventh grade. I thought everybody made it, until I missed the cut the following year. It was fun, to sing. Actually, my favorite song was a hit by Wayne Newton, which ironically Felice’s father wrote. You sing and there’s a certain joy, a […]