1. The major music business, the “new music” business, is built upon radio, it depends upon it. 2. There’s a fiction that we still live in a monoculture. This concept has been blown apart on television, where there are five hundred channels available, but the Luddites in radio still believe the Internet didn’t happen, that […]

It was the first post-Steve presentation. I know, I know, Apple’s supposed to be history. Samsung is on a full court press, giving away their devices to all the tastemakers while Apple, like the moribund music business, refuses to give it away for free. But then today happened. Tim Cook is better. But he’ll never […]

I can’t watch myself, but maybe you’d like to. I don’t want to be one of those people trumpeting my personal appearances…on Friday I’m in Philadelphia, come on down! But as a reader of my words…maybe you’d like to see me live and in action, the man behind the b.s. I didn’t know this was […]

SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROCK ‘N’ ROLL STAR So you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll star Then listen now to what I say Just get an electric guitar Then take some time And learn how to play We all took lessons. First it was Peter, Paul & Mary, the folkies, suddenly […]