Where do we start?  U2 sweeping the night?  Or Madge opening the show? The people running NARAS are under the illusion that it’s the seventies.  When music drove the popular culture, when the biggest icons on the landscape were music stars, when bands sold out stadiums and you were lucky to get a ticket to […]

Sometime in the nineties it became about the track, not the act.  THAT’S what’s killing the labels, not the purchase of single hits at the iTunes Music Store. After "Rubber Soul" we WANTED the album.  We believed artists were making a statement, that we needed to hear to be clued into society.  We didn’t even […]

How can so many be so dumb. Or, should we just send everybody in the music business back to school for remedial math classes? We live in an accelerated news cycle.  It’s not that the news happens faster, it’s just that everybody gets it and the word comes out SOONER!  Not only with big stories, […]

If Atlantic Records can start paying royalties to all the old African-American musicians it ripped off in its heyday can’t NARAS start giving Grammy awards to artists it has criminally overlooked over the ages?  Especially the unsung, those in need of remembrance, those not shining as bright as Led Zeppelin? First and foremost I nominate […]