If you’re not successful, you’ve got to change something. In 1994, I was broke, single and sans a parent. Let me restate that. I sometimes had less than $20 in the bank, my wife who I was not divorced from had moved out four and a half years earlier, and in the interim my dad […]

I know, I know, this newsletter is ostensibly about music, but have you noticed the light? Not the one from the Led Zeppelin song, but the one outside. Every summer, it’s on one specific day, at least here in Southern California, where the light changes. Oh, I know that’s not how it works, that the […]

“Life is like that. There’s always more, always a reveal.” Cheryl Strayed I contemplate suicide now and again. Not as much as I used to, in college, back before people knew how dangerous higher education was and a safety net/mental health infrastructure was required, and the decade thereafter, when I was trying to find myself […]

Getting old is not pretty. And it’s pretty damn weird. This week Nathan Hubbard disconnected from Ticketmaster. And I didn’t care. Don’t get me wrong, Nathan’s a friend of mine. I’m concerned for his future path. But once upon a time the shenanigans, the comings and goings of the music business, were my lifeblood. But […]