You’ve been sold a bill of goods. You read "The Long Tail" and believed a new era was upon us, an egalitarian one in which everybody got to play and be recognized, where music was plentiful and those making it survived financially…but this is untrue. Consolidation is always lurking. Happened with record companies. Happened in […]

Read this book. Even if you’ve never been to a Broadway play, even if you’re not Jewish. Because you’ll find out what it takes to make it. And the costs thereof. If you’ve got a well-adjusted family life, you’re not famous. You’ve got nothing to prove. Wendy Wasserstein’s mother married her brother-in-law when her husband […]

"A Little Bit Of Everything" It’s about that damn chicken wing. Records reveal themselves to you over time, you don’t digest them fully on the first play, you can get an insight listening even decades later. That’s the thrill of discovering a great new album, the way it reveals itself to you, like a new […]

All my old records are new again. Somewhere along the line we decided sound didn’t matter. Instead of purchasing ever more expensive components to get closer to the music a stereo became an all-in-one box, and the music was produced to be played upon it, all squashed with a level so high it drowned the […]