E-mail Of The Week: hey Bob, major vs indy:It’s the difference between trying to make a killing and trying to make a living. Steven HellerToubab KreweUpstream Records So one has to ask why Rosanne Cash’s "Black Cadillac" is being released on a major.  Because, despite the success of "Walk The Line", I don’t EVER see […]

I was having lunch with a retailer at the NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants) on Saturday and he told me in SIX MONTHS last year his catalog sales went from far in excess of fifty percent of his non-store business to twenty. Yes, instead of purchasing via paper catalog, most of those not […]

Starting THIS Sunday night (January 22nd), and continuing THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER (i.e. until football returns and eats up my time slot) I will be hosting a radio show on L.A.’s 97.1 FM, KLSX, from 9 to 10 PM. Sure, it’s terrestrial radio, but it’s the one format in the earthly world that will survive…TALK! Now […]

I just heard Sheryl Crow’s "If It Makes You Happy" on XM’s Top Tracks.  It reminded me how her new album is a stiff.  Because it has no HITS! Now should Sheryl Crow be castigated for creating no hits?  Is this a human flaw?  No, I give her props for making the music she wanted.  […]