Archive for 2017


Jack Tempchin At The Grammy Museum

There weren’t that many people who were in the room where it happened. And in time these stories are gonna disappear. And we want to hear them. You see once upon a time life was boring. And the way you dealt with that was to go out. Now it’s nearly impossible to get someone to […]

How Hip-Hop Conquered America-Chapter One

Frequency of product, oftentimes FREE! Whilst the oldsters were bitching about the moving of their cheese, the demise of the old paradigm, hip-hop slid in to fill the void, utilizing the new tools to exploit the new world, while the rockers and country denizens were still worrying about the radio the rappers knew it was […]

Rock Fans Have To Stream

I’m looking at the half year BuzzAngle report where the rock format is #1 in both Album Sales, with 14.3%, and also #1 in Physical and Vinyl, and #2 in Digital Alum Sales and #1 in Song Sales, but when it comes to Audio Streams…it’s dwarfed by Hip-Hop/Rap, which has 24.4% to rock’s 6.9%. Even […]

The Defiant Ones-Episode Three

The internet killed the music business. That’s right, it wasn’t only about recording revenues, it was about UBIQUITY! Walk into an exec’s office in the nineties and MTV was on. That’s what broke Dre big, rap too, sure Jimmy got Snoop and Dre on the cover of “Rolling Stone,” but even though that rag is […]