You don’t want to fail in public. This is why acts are wary of stretching to play larger venues. Nothing puts a stink upon your act like empty seats. Forget the buzz on the outside, the business and the social media scuttlebutt, the attendees are also turned off. What are they doing there if everybody […]

1 There was a standing ovation after almost every song. As previously established, my dentist turned me on to Yes. His nephew made an 8-track tape of the first album for him and we listened to it as the Dodge station wagon which needed a front end alignment trundled down I-91 from Vermont back to […]

From: Peter Mensch Subject: Re: More Wind Of Change Podcast Date: June 8, 2026 at 4:58:32?PM PDT That Winds of Change Podcast is a joke with the exception of the episode on Doc/Moscow Peace Festival which I found fascinating. Patrick Radden Keefe (one of if not the best non fiction writers out there) should be […]

So I’m looking through the midyear issue of “Pollstar” and there’s a chart for “Venues With Capacities Of 5,000 Or Less.” Now if you’re a dedicated follower of the main “Pollstar chart (if not fashion), you know it tends to be dominated by the usual suspects, mostly acts with years under their belts, playing big […]