You won’t know right away. That’s what the internet promised, instant response. But now the pipes are clogged with messages and if your project has any virality, you won’t see the signals immediately, but rather two days to two weeks to a month later. Don’t confuse this with hype-driven action. With enough publicity you can […]

From: Bob Lefsetz Subject: Hey Elton! To: Elton John Hope you’re good. I know you’re a big new music fan. Today’s music world is incomprehensible, we need curators who will make sense of it for us, and not just endless playlists on streaming services, so… Can you recommend ONE recent track (now, or from the […]

There are three record companies, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. If you want to know what it was like in the late sixties, during the seventies in the record business, look to streaming TV. Not the eighties and nineties, those were victory laps, when MTV blew up bands beyond comprehension and then the CD rained down […]

He spent too much! And he was Doug’s guy and it’s now Rob’s company. Come on, you expect history to repeat itself ad infinitum? For things to never change? For the wall to fall and democracy to reign in Russia and Napster to happen and for recording CEOs to continue to be big swinging dicks? […]