LAUGH, LAUGH Some songs emanate from the speaker and stop you in your tracks, vacate all other thoughts and have you asking WHAT’S THAT? Like “Laugh, Laugh.” You’ve got to know, by time we reached the end of ’64 an entire generation was addicted to the radio. It’s kind of like today, but instead of […]

Are we shooting too low? Once upon a time music dominated the conversation, it does not today. Could it be that the labels are too insular, the artists without dreams, have we sacrificed the track to branding and sponsorship and that which has nothing to do with music? There’s only been one worldwide dominant track […]

Ben Sisario wrote the definitive statement in the “New York Times”: No Joke! He’s Topping the Charts Weird Al Yankovic Scores With ‘Mandatory Fun’ The most important element of the above article is the sponsorship story. Weird Al didn’t see sponsorship as a way to rip-off corporations to enhance his bottom line, he saw it […]

1. DIGITAL HOME A. Wikipedia Your goal is to be big enough to have a Wikipedia page. It’s the first place newbies go to learn about you. It’s got the imprimatur of authority, people believe what they read, however inaccurate the details may be. We live in an information age and what we want most […]