Archive for 2021/04


Easy Sleazy

https://bit.ly/3slTJ2K Somewhere Keith Richards is smiling, if not outright laughing. Without him, Mick Jagger appears completely out of touch with no soul. Mick may be the front man, but who is behind him turns out to be the essence of his success. This is not the first time Mick has tried to go solo. And […]

Live Nation Signs

“We Stand For Democracy”: https://nyti.ms/3tmZK0o This cements Michael Rapino’s stature as the most powerful man in the music business. That’s right, for decades the power laid with the labels. But now it’s all in touring, the events business, where people can have a human experience in a land of impersonal digital. You may see a […]

The Power Of Fan Bases

“When Anti-Asian Parody Targeted BTS, the Boy Band’s Fan Army Mobilized”: https://nyti.ms/2OKoZe3 What kind of crazy, fucked-up world do we live in where a boy band singing in a foreign language has more credibility than all the American acts in the hit parade? One in which a foreign power realizes you build fan bases from […]

Joel Selvin-SiriusXM This Week

Joel Selvin has a new book, “Hollywood Eden,” which investigates the genesis of the Southern California sound. Stunningly, after all this time, Selvin has excavated stories about Jan Berry and Nancy Sinatra and others in the early to mid-sixties that have never been told before. Tune in to hear some and more! Tune in today, […]