I’m sick and fucking tired of people telling me they’ve put in their 10,000 hours, so they should be rich and famous. It’s 10,000 hours of HARD PRACTICE! Let me put it to you this way… If you spend 10,000 hours on the bunny slope, you’re never going to win the World Cup. You’ve got […]

Has the music business been ruined by the Internet, with sales of CDs in the dumper and executives out of work, or are we at the advent of a golden era, with music cheap and plentiful for the masses and performers handsomely rewarded for their efforts? You know what the RIAA says. We’re headed for […]

From: Jeff TamarkinSubject: R&R Hall of Fame Bob, Like Toure and Joel Selvin I spent time on the R&R Hall of Fame nominating committee, albeit almost 20 years ago, and like Joel I was kicked off, in my case for writing a guest editorial for "Billboard" on the inequities of the nominating process (which earned […]

Lady GaGa is the 1%. I don’t mean she’s to be hated, that she has no talent, only that she won, she’s ubiquitous, she’s rich. And odds are you’re not going to be. Society demands a certain amount of commonality, things we all know about and comment upon. It’s usually based on quality, but not […]