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Re: DJ Cassidy When Cassidy was in high school , I was at his Dad’s house (Jon Podell), at the time a great booking agent (CSNY) and many other huge artists. Jon sent me in to  try and tell Cassidy to put aside his passion to be a DJ and stay in school. Cassidy told […]

Optimism

Has Kamala Harris’s campaign ushered in a new era of optimism? Was the pent-up demand already there, just waiting to be released? And was Taylor Swift’s Eras tour just a harbinger of a new era? And the nearly overnight success of Chappell Roan indicative of this newfound optimism? Let’s be clear, there’s been a lot […]

The United States Of Cults

Challenge the cult at your peril. Have you listened to Joe Rogan’s podcast? Can you name two songs from Taylor Swift’s latest album? Can you name one member of BTS? Are you even on Twitter/X, never mind eating up every word Elon Musk utters? Are you one of the 130,000 on the Kamala Harris Zoom […]

Hawk Tuah

Are you a meme or are you a musician? If you’re willing to do anything for attention is it working for you, or against you? The bifurcation began with the split of AM and FM in the sixties. Stations could no longer simulcast on FM what they were broadcasting on AM. As a result we […]