1. What A Difference A Day Makes! Members of Congress positions In case you’re on a mobile phone or don’t have the patience to click through to the Internet, this is a chart showing the switch in position by Congressmen after yesterday’s web blackout. On January 18th SOPA/PIPA had 80 supporters and 31 opponents. On […]

And here’s where I take the risk I accuse Springsteen of refusing to take below. What I wrote about the Boss’s single ain’t bad, but it doesn’t pop, it doesn’t zing. But the P.S. positively rocks. So I’m gonna put it first: P.S. Watch this clip of Jackson Browne singing a newly-written protest song at […]

Metallica taught us the cost of being on the wrong side. The band’s still paying the price. You’ve got to be in bed with your fans. They’re lifers, they’re your family. The record company employees come and go, as do the agents, promoters and even the managers. Somehow, in the last thirty years, music has […]

You don’t mess with the Web. Isn’t that what the battle between Napster and the music industry taught us? That despite having the law on your side you just can’t win? Meanwhile, the pirating of music is in its sunset years. People will pay for streaming services just like they used to pay for push […]