Archive for 2018/12


Hypocrisy

The “Washington Post” says the Russians interacted with fourteen of Trump’s team and the Fox News site leads with Hillary Clinton. We live in silos, reinforced by our media consumption, but one thing’s for sure, if you’re not watching Fox, the world is in turmoil. Huawei, Brexit, the stock market and… Kevin Hart. He was […]

Myopia

The music business should be much bigger than it is. But the old guard running on fumes is running on self-interest and there’s no vision. Usually we rely on artists for vision, but as a result of income inequality the best an the brightest don’t go into music and the “artists” we do have are […]

Ticketing Is Broken

Jamie said the customer doesn’t want to know about the fees, they’re scared off if the fees are baked into the ticket price. Jake said baby bands can’t develop because sometimes the fees are as much as the tickets. A promoter said he had a show with seven pre-sales, and the end result was thirty […]

Capturing The Zeitgeist

You had to watch SNL, because it reflected our generation, it was the only place you could go to experience television that had the viewpoint of the boomers, where music was a staple building block and irreverence was baked-in. You felt alone until 11:30 Saturday night. And the time slot was reflective of the dividing […]