90% of the tickets go to bots. Okay, you’re sitting in your underwear, it’s Saturday at 10 AM, you’ve logged on to ticketmaster.com to buy tickets for your favorite act and you’re locked out, or the tickets you ultimately get are in the nosebleed section. Why? THE BOTS! In the first five minutes of the […]

Twenty five years ago, there was a breakthrough, 1984 to be exact. Suddenly this soundtrack was flying out of the stores, even though the movie it came from was a veritable stiff. That album was "Eddie and the Cruisers". And the reason it was successful, was blowing up months and months after the film had […]

Well, maybe it’s the nominating committee that’s handicapped, but I’m gonna give you my take, followed by who I want in and who I believe will get in. 1. Guns ‘N Roses Don’t overthink this, don’t worry about this being their first year of eligibility. If GNR doesn’t get in on the first ballot we […]

The songs remain the same, but the executives come and go. The Edgar Bronfman, Jr. era is now officially over. What did we learn? That money allows you to execute your vision. Junior combined perennial also-ran MCA with PolyGram to build the behemoth known today as Universal Music. From worst to first. But it wasn’t […]