Archive for 2018/11


What Is A Hit

A hit is something you can’t get out of your head, that you have to play again and again. In the old days it meant twisting the radio dial till you could hear it, or running to the record store to buy it, now it involves going online to stream it. A hit may or […]

Audience & Impact

There’s not an artist alive who prefers money to reach. Unless that person was never an artist to begin with, or is so far over the hill that they’ve got nothing to say. That’s why you become an artist, to have your message heard by the most people possible. Then again, with all this focus […]

Barbra Streisand

What kind of bizarre world do we live in where the hype is bigger than the music? Welcome to 2018, when ancient artists depend upon the press to do their bidding and their new music has no impact. Talk about adjusting to the paradigm…they don’t. Just like the rockers decrying streaming payments as they fade […]

Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj

Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj What kind of crazy fucked-up world do we live in where a comedian explains the Harvard lawsuit better than the “New York Times”? One in which an Asian-American gets his own show on Netflix and breaks all the rules. You know, you’ve got to have a monologue of disconnected jokes, […]