Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


The Coachella Backlash

Watch this: https://tinyurl.com/yckp3kmk You may never go on TikTok, you may not even have an account, but the target demo does, you know, the impressionable youngsters with disposable income. They don’t bother with Instagram, they never had a Facebook account, as far as the mainstream media goes…that’s something oldsters argue about, if anything important happens, […]

Today’s Rules

You’ll have a hard time finding another person who listens to the same new music as you. Of course you can go online, or go to a gig and find acolytes of the same act, but the odds of going to work, hanging with friends, and finding commonality in new musical tastes is extremely rare. […]

The Oscars

I don’t plan to watch. Which is astounding if I look back to the past. The Oscars were a ritual. My mother would stay up late watching them. She was a movie buff, she used to go to these Judith Crist weekends. This was back when being a fan was enough, you didn’t need a […]

Ukraine/Corporations/Music

In that order. Will the war in Ukraine reset the music business? I certainly hope so, but it’s highly doubtful. People always tell me it’s the same as it ever was. That I’m just too old. That music means just as much to today’s younger generations, and is just as intrinsically meaningful. But that is […]