I’d never heard of them. But the guy in Blue Sky said they were from Vermont and they were really good. I could tell by his enthusiasm he meant it. But he lived in Vermont, he was a ski instructor at Okemo. Was he trustworthy? You know a band is good when you like their […]

Another day, another faux pas. Today it was Betsy DeVos applauding black colleges for giving their students choice, completely ignorant of the reason for their establishment, that white institutions were not open to black students. What did the internet do? Wait for the “New York Times” to weigh in? For Bill O’Reilly or Rachel Maddow […]

Is the number one commodity in today’s world. Unless you can get it, you cannot proceed. 1. You don’t get multiple bites at the apple. Since attention is scarce and stretched if someone checks you or your product out and is not closed, chances are they will never check it out again. Which is why […]

This record should be bad. A guy with no deal doing it independently, we’re inundated with the work of wannabes, we trust labels, radio and the press to weed out quality. But what if they don’t? The first criterion for music is listenability. I don’t care about theories, the lyrics, first and foremost it must […]