Archive for 2025/07


Passion/Viewpoint/Craft

PASSION If you don’t believe it, we won’t. Passion trumps everything but craft. Once you have the skill to deliver your message, it becomes completely about how you deliver your message. This is what is absent from TV competition shows, this is what is absent from too many songs in the Spotify Top 50, this […]

Youthquake

This is society’s Napster moment. They never could kill P2P with the legal system. It took a bright twentysomething from a foreign country to save the record labels’ lunch. And now said labels are trying to survive by purchasing the distribution systems of much younger companies led by entrepreneurs. NO ONE running a major label […]

Compassion

Now wait just a second. There’s a flood in Texas and over a hundred people die and it was an unforeseen  act of God, but fire destroys homes in California and the fault lies with the mayor and the fire department and… I’m not saying I don’t care about the people who lost their lives […]

Tanner Usrey

“These Days” 1 He doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. I decided to play some new music. I’ve been reading this new novel and my eyes were starting to glaze over. I’m not sure I’ll ever recommend it, because it’s kinda dense with highfalutin’ words, but a lot of it centers on Berlin club culture […]