So you think all record companies are backwards… Anyway, the company with the most antiquated catalog, Rhino, is jumping into Spotify in a big way. They asked me to do a playlist every week. Of course I’m getting paid, would you do it for free? But to use my ancestral language, it’s bupkes. It’s a […]

You’re gonna need something to write about. Practice is important, perfecting your skill, but being a really good guitar player or a really good vocalist is kind of like being a really good computer, you’re just a tool, you’re essentially inert, you can’t be believed in. Or look at professional athletes. As successful as their […]

I’m a fan. I found out about it via old media, straight media, the "New York Times". But it was the "Magazine", proving that long-form media is not dead. On ‘Radiolab,’ the Sound of Science Anyway, even though I make them, I’m not a podcast guy. I’d rather listen in real time. Be up to […]

Howard Bloom: Success in Music Industry Watch this clip. I barely know Howard Bloom. But there was an era when not only was he a kingpin in music publicity, he towered over his competition, he was an artist in the field. No one works in a vacuum. Just like in the clip Bloom says you’ve […]