Netflix – For Your Consideration I’m numb. I drove home with the radio off. I just want to bask in the experience, the greatness, of two men still at the top of their game in the flesh. It was the sensibility, the quickness, the jokes. We were eavesdropping on two men talking about their history […]

After Sony blows out half of its investment. This is what’s wrong with the record companies, this is what’s wrong with AMERICA! The short-term thinking. Stockholders in Spotify all agree, its value is going up. Of course it’s the stock market, no one can predict the future. But trading is thin, because investors believe there’s […]

It’s about branding. The F in FYF stood for a four letter word, the festival was anti, for those out of the mainstream, the overlooked who gather together to hear bands that speak to them, and possibly no one else. Whereas Janet Jackson is purely mainstream, she speaks primarily to people who don’t want to […]

It was a badge of honor to see a band on its first tour. I can regale you with stories of Elvis Costello at the Whisky, Oasis at the Roxy, back when you started small and grew, when music drove the culture and record companies signed you based on the music more than the commercial […]