Keith Urban’s “Ripcord” – Spotify It’s not country. But the picking on the opening track, “Gone Tomorrow (Here Today),” reminds me of one of my favorite Urban cuts, “Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me,” which starts off on a tear and then explodes, a veritable zero to sixty run down the highway that thrills you as […]

Is it 1968 all over again? Wherein Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy put such a dent in Hubert Humphrey’s campaign that despite garnering the nomination, the Minnesotan did not win. Kinda like Gore in 2000… Humphrey was tainted by Johnson and Gore was tainted by Clinton and despite both being reasonable, upright men, albeit politicians, […]

We’ve been racing towards the center ever since the internet blew a hole in distribution. Used to be we had controlled models that were very profitable. Now we’ve got unlimited channels with many more competitors and it’s extremely difficult to scale. Scale, that’s the mantra of the tech companies. If it doesn’t appeal to everyone, […]

Alice Cooper turned out to be a Republican who plays golf and Ozzy Osbourne is a harmless grandfather who putters around the living room and you’re supposed to have me believe that Donald Trump is DANGEROUS? Those with memories will recall when music tested limits, when the establishment was up in arms about the sound […]