He wasn’t the average record exec. Although I first met Seymour at the Troubadour, when he approached me about something I wrote and then went into a story about Syd Nathan, it wasn’t until 2004, when I went to Tony Wilson’s In The City conference in Manchester, that we began to hang, began to bond. […]

We were the generation that thought we were going to live forever. Everything they say is true, it goes by in the blink of an eye. However I can’t say that either my high school or college days were the best of my life. I never want to go back to school. I like not […]

From: Peter Wiley Subject: Spotify Discovery Mode Hi Bob, thought this Tweet thread was a solid (and concise) look at Spotify’s Discovery Mode. I work for a label distributed via Sony’s Orchard and Sony will not participate in DM, nor allow any of it’s subsidiaries to opt in. There’s a real concern that their unilateral […]

How did we turn into a can’t do nation? Or to put it another way, if Democrats suddenly embraced gun ownership would Republicans renounce it? I don’t own a gun and never would. Primarily for two reasons: 1. I’d end up shooting a friend or relative knocking on the door or prowling around the house […]