Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Biko/Playing For Change

1 You’ve got to listen for Yo-Yo Ma’s solo at 3:23, he’s wailing, and if you know the original record it will resonate and transcend. Atlantic Records believed so much in Peter Gabriel’s third LP…that the company refused to release it. It ended up coming out on Mercury, which is like BMW rejecting a model […]

Songs About Growing Up-SiriusXM This Week

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Corporations Push Back Against Voting Laws

I guess corporations really are people. Or at least more powerful than people. And government too while we’re at it. This is a sea change. Used to be government told corporations what to do, and people agitated and protested for change. But people have lost their individual power since the advent of the internet and […]

More Vaccine Passports

I’m not a Trumper or anti-vaxxer, but this is all very suspect to me. I’m not taking their shot and especially not just to go to a concert. They can keep their shots and their concerts if this will be the new requirement, and I’m sure many others feel the same way. The industry will […]