2. Darius Rucker "Charleston, SC 1966" Sales this week: 100,745 And they said Hootie was done. Make it in the country world and they stand by you, unlike in the pop world. But also credit hard work by Darius, good management by McGhee, et al, and songs…they may not be the best, they may not […]

It’s mediocre. This album should not have been produced by T-Bone Burnett, but Rick Rubin.  Rick is famous for getting his acts to get back into the headspace they inhabited when they did their best work and forcing them to write and write and write until they come up with material just as good as […]

They’re all old guys! While the music business is purveying ever younger acts, not only Justin Bieber, but Willow Smith, and so many are dazzled by twentysomething Mark Zuckerberg, the true king of the hill, Apple, America’s second most valuable company (behind Exxon Mobil!) is run by alta kachers! Because you need experience to do […]

"Nobody knows anything."  That’s what screenwriter William Goldman famously said about the movie business. No aphorism could be more true about today’s music business.  I asked everybody I came in contact with what brought 3,700 people out to see this band last night. Maybe they’d paid their dues.  From the Hotel Cafe to the Troubadour […]