Turn Of The Decade Playlist – Spotify From the eighties to the nineties, when rock still ruled, before MTV went totally big budget pop. That’s right, rock used to dominate on TV, and TV dominated the airwaves, determined what we heard on radio too. And although Michael Jackson broke the color line, rap/hip-hop didn’t start […]

Rockin’ Vibes – Spotify playlist Do you know this band Kaleo? They’re from Iceland and now signed to Atlantic and they’ve played SXSW and…they’ve got two tracks with over twenty million plays on Spotify. I’ve never heard of them. I started with “Discover Weekly,” and discovered that unsung, never broke through Bob Schneider definitely has […]

“Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice” Jim Urie recommended this book. Yes, the man who used to run Universal Distribution, the guy who was featured so prominently in the Tower Records documentary. And I didn’t expect it to be good, after all, it was released over […]