Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Warren Leads In Iowa

Poll: Elizabeth Warren Jumps Out To Big Lead In The Iowa Caucus There are so many lessons here: 1. Conventional wisdom is oftentimes ignorance. All movements start from the bottom up, and most pundits don’t recognize it, they’re too busy hanging in the club. This is how it always happens in music and how it […]

Peter Shapiro-SiriusXM This Week

Yes, the concert promoter who started with Wetlands, expanded into the Brooklyn Bowl and the Capitol Theatre and… It doesn’t stop there, Peter put together Fare Thee Well and now has Lock’n. Find out how an independent promoter innovates, survives and makes a difference! Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday August 13th, to Volume 106, 7 PM […]

The Lumineers Open The MIssion Ballroom

Strasburg told me the story on Chair 10. Used to be a dedicated reader could tell what was going on, a subscription to “Billboard” was enough. Not anymore. There’s no music publication that will hip you to the business. Today you’ve got to know the people, and that’s a damn hard thing to do, because […]

Anti-Gun Concerts

I told Alexa to play Blind Faith. The people looked at me funny, like I was talking to myself, but Alexa works on the phone, assuming you’ve got a subscription to Amazon Music. And the great thing about Vail is you get Verizon LTE over the complete mountain, so you can stream on your hike. […]