Howard’s the new buzz. Used to be you did Stern last, Gaga was smart enough to do Stern first. Yes, yesterday, the day her new album was released, Lady Gaga appeared on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show to talk and play, and the Internet and mainstream media are abuzz about it. Howard may be unavailable […]

The music Jay-Z made with Samsung may have already been forgotten, but the deal has not. That’s what we’ve been hearing since the advent of the Internet music era, when the labels were bled by Napster. You’ve got to sell out to make it. It’s no longer about the music, but the brand. Just like […]

HATERS It hurts, but the truth is hating is done by an underclass of people pissed that their dreams have not come true. Instead of looking inside, instead of working harder, instead of figuring out the problem is the system and not them, they needle those who are successful in an effort to make them […]

TO FEEL A MEMBER OF THE GROUP All this focus on social networks has been about money, i.e. ads, going public, but there’s been very little focus on what it feels like to be a member of society today. Or not. There’s this illusion since every rapper has a posse and every person has a […]