How could he go on for so long and say so little? In "The World Is Flat", Thomas Friedman says the future is based on imagination.  Once a company starts talking about the good old days, and fails to push the outside of the envelope, it’s toast.  What did Einstein say?  According to Friedman, "Imagination […]

I’m sick to fucking death of the marketing plans. That’s what’s wrong with the major labels today.  Fuck the product, that’s irrelevant, they’re more interested in how they’re going to SELL the product! Did you read that inane story about Epic’s band Cartel recording its new album in a huge transparent bubble on the Hudson, […]

And there’s this: Got the McCartney single last week and sort of liked it. Now that was a surprise since I’ve been of the opinion he was a glorified jingle writer since after "Band…" But this is what my PD and I were flamingly pissed about: just ten years ago we would have run it […]

At one point in time, music radio was the heartbeat of America.  But it hasn’t had that spirit in a long, long time.  In an era of iPods, and music blogs, and P2P trading, can music radio survive? The Ravyns sang on the soundtrack of "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" about being raised on the […]