Music is turning into baseball. There’s no sense of history. For all the fealty paid to classic rock, the truth is the past gets very little ink, even though it can dominate listening. And if you’re not the Beatles or Pink Floyd you may get neither, no attention and no streams. And that’s just plain […]

Nate Silver told me Donald Trump can’t win. You remember Brother Nate, who called the last election which Mitt Romney thought he was gonna win and Karl Rove couldn’t believe he lost. Silver got it exactly right in the “New York Times,” which unlike a winning sports team didn’t give him what he wanted, so […]

Now everything is entertainment, everything is just grist for the mill. That gig the paper says was sold out? Probably wasn’t. Those sales figures that indie act is touting? You’d be best to cut them by 90%. The entertainment business has always been built upon smoke and mirrors. The truth hurts and the populace did […]