https://bit.ly/34HgmWk 2020 is the year of the Latin breakthrough. Bad Bunny was Spotify’s most streamed artist of the year. Latin represented 30% of the global YouTube chart. And Latin is growing faster than any other genre. Proving, once again, that technology, distribution, affects the music being heard. Used to be records broke on radio. Now […]

I was the format designer and consultant at THE LOOP back in the Disco Demolition era. Race or Homophobia was never even remotely discussed as a component of the promotion. It was all about the Midwest 16-34 Men that the station targeted and their disdain for the disco movement. The factors that DID play into it were […]

I am a long time reader and I commend you for your effort in keeping everyone in this industry informed and inspired. My name is Vince Lawrence. I appeared in Frank Marshall’s Bee Gees film, discussing Disco Demolition from the perspective of a Black person who was actually in the stadium on that frightful day. […]

https://spoti.fi/3mozEGU 1 I have a scratch in my copy of “Tiny Dancer.” Which was never a hit. Cameron Crowe shot “Tiny Dancer” into the stratosphere with that scene in “Almost Famous,” but you’ve got to know, if you wanted to hear “Tiny Dancer” back then you’d better have purchased the album, “Madman Across the Water,” […]