Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Turbocharged Stars

You can’t avoid Elon Musk. There are only three superstars in America today, Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Kanye West. You can’t avoid them, everybody knows who they are and everybody has an opinion on them. Used to be records were ubiquitous, now it’s people. This is what the internet has wrought. For a minute […]

Ignore The Rules

Rules are for businesses. The great thing about art is it has no rules. We live in the era of data. Everybody wants to break it down to numbers. But that’s just what they are, numbers, they don’t reference feelings or soul and never forget this about research and numbers, they can tell you where […]

Red vs. Blue

It’s not politics, it’s cultural identity. I’d say this is why you should never believe someone when they say they’re independent, but this is a cultural signifier too… They don’t want to be aligned with either side, they want to be seen as independent thinkers, even though they almost always vote for one side or […]

John Seabrook’s TikTok Article

“So You Want To Be A TikTok Star: The social-media platform is transforming the music industry. Is that a good thing?”: https://bit.ly/3F7nWv3 And we thought file-trading was gonna kill the record business. Let’s be clear, the major labels will never die, because of their catalogs, which they wield with an iron fist, you cannot play […]