It’s always someone else’s fault. The world is stacked against you. I was going to win, but… I was going to get a ticket for ten bucks for the first row, but Ticketmaster… I was going to pay my bills from music, but Spotify… And the personal responsibility party, the Republicans, are led by someone […]

Subject: RE: 74 Of ’74 For an interesting exercise, compare this 50-years-after-the-fact list with the Top Album list Rolling Stone actually issued in 1974. The original list had jazz or jazz-fusion albums in each of the top five spots. In this list, the top-rated jazz album is Miles Davis at 32 – and Miles wasn’t […]

ELECTION Mainstream media doesn’t reach everybody, even though the Democrats thought it would. MUSIC BUSINESS Print means nothing, TV little, except for SNL and CBS Sunday Morning, yet the labels keep focusing on these outlets. As for radio… Find me anyone under 20 who listens to terrestrial radio, I can’t. But labels keep focusing on […]

We’re not as civilized as we think we are. Work with me here. We were watching a TV series last night… Well, it’s “Gangs of London” on Netflix, we’re only two episodes in, so don’t tell me what happens, but the interaction of the gangs, who are not teenagers but closer to Mafiosi, got me […]