Archive for 2014/09


Modern Rules

YOU WANT A HIT It anchors your career. There are hitmakers and everybody else. A hit just means something ubiquitous that everybody listens to, chart numbers are unnecessary. Hits can come in a flash via inspiration, but oftentimes they require a huge amount of effort and craft. Are you repeating the verses? Is the chorus […]

The Apple Watch

It’s overpriced. It doesn’t do anything. It’s a me-too product. I don’t need it. I don’t want it. Sound familiar? That’s exactly what we heard about the iPod back in 2001. And that went on to change music forever! You overpaid, the price came down, you replaced your original, you owned multiple iterations and you […]

Guy Oseary/U2

“U2’s Manager Responds to Backlash: If You Don’t Like This Gift, Delete It” Speaking of tone deaf scumbags… The spam problem is all over the news, I have to delete hundreds of messages a day, but when U2 does it it’s legitimate. Ugh. It’s almost like they don’t live in the real world, like they […]

One Direction At The Rose Bowl

It was incomprehensible. Furthermore, if you weren’t there you probably didn’t know it happened, despite the act selling out two dates and nearly a third, on a Thursday, a school night. And that was who were there. Students. Girls. Wanna get laid? Go to a 1D show. You won’t see odds this good at the […]