Archive for 2012/02


We Are All Weird

Linda Chorney didn’t win the Grammy. You remember Ms. Chorney, she’s the woman who used the Grammy365 program to get herself a nomination. That was remarkable. Unfortunately, Ms. Chorney’s music was not. Despite the worldwide press, there was no spike in sales, no embrace by the public, she’s still a marginal artist playing to marginal […]

Grammys Beat The Super Bowl

"According to Bluefin Labs, the Grammys earned 13 million social comments. That breaks the record from last week’s Super Bowl and absolutely dwarfs every other entertainment event from the last year." Social Media Helps Grammys Achieve Huge Ratings in Broadcast and Social TV THAT’S the power of music! Enough with the hogwash about how the […]

My Seinfeld Year

I HATE this guy! At least that’s what I thought when I first heard him on Marc Maron’s podcast, when I finally figured out who it was. You know him too, Stoller’s the schnook with the whiny voice, the kind of guy who wants to be your friend who you avoid. But the intro to […]

Grammy Ratings

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where the Golden Globes are simulcast, but the Grammys are on tape delay? All the action was online last night. Twitter was aflare. If you think the Grammy ratings spiked because of the show, you probably believe CDs are ripe for a comeback. The […]