Most famously the manager of Dire Straits, Ed Bicknell started out as a drummer before becoming an agent and a manager and a drummer once again (you can hear him with the Notting Hillbillies!) Ed takes us all the way from the fifties in the U.K. to the agency world of today, with stops at […]

1 We haven’t had this spirit here since 1999. That’s when Napster blew up. But this is different. Napster was about employing technology to benefit users while simultaneously proving to rights holders that their business model was flawed, charging $15 for a CD with one good song on it. NFTs are about the money, pure […]

Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3l0cQNO Note: The most played track in my iTunes library, with 249 plays, is the acoustic version of James McMurtry’s “We Can’t Make It Here.” The playlist contains the studio version. You can hear the acoustic version here: https://bit.ly/3v3KC9H And you should. Tune in today, March 9th, to Volume 106, 7 PM East, 4 […]

The internet killed MTV. Have streaming television, social media and on demand music services killed the Grammy telecast? I’ll say yes. In case you missed the memo, which you probably did, since you obviously missed the show, Golden Globe ratings tanked by 62%. Now we can say they were hobbled by Covid-19. Then again, aren’t […]