It is important to study history, so one does not repeat the same mistakes. Don’t Guy Oseary, Arthur Fogel and Madge herself remember U2’s PopMart tour? The biggest, baddest band in the world, one beloved by Gen-X’ers everywhere (the true Gen-X, in its forties now, the one from Douglas Coupland’s novel), books stadiums and…DOESN’T SELL […]

As "Hits" continues to chronicle the downfall of the Warner Music Group, one must ask if major labels are even the story anymore. So Warner’s numbers tanked. It’s not like this is a surprise. After all, CD sales have been going down, down, down for years, unrelentingly. Hell, Warner’s market share improved recently, and the […]

I spent some time listening to Sirius Left Of Center, channel 26. It’s much better than XM’s Ethel. I know, because I tried to continue to listen to Sirius at home, via my boom box, but the signal kept dropping out and I had to fire up Ethel. I was excited by Left Of Center, […]

You mean he’s finally going to release his archival material? We’ve been hearing about this since the seventies, how Neil Young is going to do this huge archival dump, ten albums… But it never happened. And continues not to happen. Even though stories continue to circulate. Now it appears to be for real. I don’t […]