Artists question the status quo. But this is hard for most people, because they’ve been taught from birth to fit in, not make a ruckus, be a member of the group…which is why I say the captain of the football team or the class president is rarely an artist. Artists tend to be loners, or […]

Record companies are like the Democrats, they refuse to innovate, they refuse to embrace new strategies, they refuse to live in the now, never mind the future. WHAT? If you follow the Street, which most musicians do not, you will learn that the stocks of record companies are moribund. Yet Spotify is flourishing. Why? Because […]

It’s not about the album. It’s not even about Spotify, et al. It’s about social media. And somehow the algorithm didn’t serve it up to me and every story about him didn’t mention this. I’ve got to give the guy credit. He broke through doing it the newfangled way. Going direct to the customer with […]

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