You sell in the fourth quarter. You stream all year-round. Once again the music business is on the cutting edge, the canary in the coal mine. Movies are fourth quarter dependent. What are people gonna see during the holidays? Thanksgiving to Christmas? They’ve got free time, they’re oftentimes not working, they’ve got to get out […]

You never punch down. So this is the second strike out by Jack Antonoff, after Lorde’s “Green Light,” Jack’s no Max Martin. Martin releases no track before its time, Martin has his finger on the pulse of music culture, he knows the hit parade and adjusts his sound accordingly, Antonoff is a niche player with […]

Just when I thought the Soho House was jive… I went for a meeting with a Canadian. That was what the Soho House was pitched as, a home away from home, a place you could do business when you were on the road. But then Soho House came to L.A. And after the usual suspects […]

Her name is on the building. That’s the power of songs. It buys you six floors on Cahuenga, you’ve got a permanent piece of the rock, it illustrates… You made it. Do you know how hard it is to make it? Music ain’t like Wall Street, where your relatives give you a leg up, ensure […]