Archive for 2018/08


Jim McCarthy-This Week’s Podcast

He runs Goldstar. Don’t know what Goldstar is? Go to goldstar.com and sign up, it’s free! And what will you find there? Events. Goldstar is in the events business. Turning you on, finding something for you to do. Most tickets are discounted, but not all. At first Goldstar had a bad rep, devaluing concert tickets. […]

Eric Church In Rolling Stone

Eric Church: The Defiant One “Back In Black” was “the most important thing to happen to me as a young man.” What is “popular”? It certainly ain’t what it used to be. The music industry runs on the past, even though when done right the music it purveys pushes the envelope, arguably, that’s what’s wrong […]

Advertising

It’s not 2005 anymore, certainly not 2010, virality is dead, bubbling up from the bottom doesn’t exist, and the big get bigger. For a while there it looked like Madison Avenue was faltering. And if you follow the ad biz, you’ll see that the agencies are challenged, fearful of being cut out by the middlemen, […]

New York City

I just came back from lunch with Steve. L.A. is a giant suburb, that’s why I’m comfortable there, I grew up in the suburbs! You can own a house, have a yard and drive your car. Although I must admit as the years have gone by the traffic has gotten even worse. I’m now one […]