Archive for 2013/08


Longform Journalism

Did you read the “New York Times” story on the avalanche? Snow Fall – The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek Actually, you don’t read it as much as experience it. It’s not only words, but images. And it deals with the basic issues of human life…risk, camaraderie and death. Should we do it or not? Will […]

SoundScan Is Killing Our Business

Every week the antiquated record industry trumpets its sales figures and the even more ancient media industry repeats them. And to say they’re unimpressive is to say you took the family goat to prom. Let’s look at Imagine Dragons. They’re a top ten act selling 25,000 records a week. 25k a week? That’s positively anemic […]

Another Tooth Bites The Dust

Getting old is not pretty. And it’s pretty damn weird. This week Nathan Hubbard disconnected from Ticketmaster. And I didn’t care. Don’t get me wrong, Nathan’s a friend of mine. I’m concerned for his future path. But once upon a time the shenanigans, the comings and goings of the music business, were my lifeblood. But […]

Rhinofy-Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)

And you wonder why we wanted to move to California… I used to live in New York City Everything there was dark and dirty It’s different today. People don’t take L.A. seriously. The whole state of California, it’s lost its position in the country’s consciousness, except for maybe Silicon Valley. But once upon a time […]