Let me get over you THE WAY YOU’VE GOTTEN OVER ME! The weather changed. Traditionally summer comes late to SoCal and lasts late, September is the hottest month of the year. But this year October was just as blistering. It was like living in vacationland, everybody in shorts on hot nights, parading down the avenues…and […]

Have brands trumped bands? I was wondering this as I walked through Red Bull HQ today. With every seat taken, with young hipsters in front of their computer screens, it’s everything the music business was before Napster, when those coasting on CD profits, both replacement and buy one overpriced one to hear one hit track […]

“Not One Artist’s Album Has Gone Platinum In 2014” Is it streaming, albums, the music or all three? If you’re looking for evidence that the sales model is dead, here it is. If you’re a marginal band on the road surviving on $20 signed CDs, if you’re employing sales shenanigans as publicity to drive concert […]

1. They’re making no more of it. Doesn’t matter whether you’re rich or poor, we all abide by the same clock. 2. Stimulation. That’s what we all want with our time. We want to be excited, we want to be titillated. We want the jones love gives us, the high of infatuation, the satisfaction of […]