Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Nichification

First everybody was gonna have a website, then they were gonna have a blog, then a page on Facebook and now pictures on Instagram. What do all these endeavors have in common? They’re passing fads. Because it was too much work and too few people were paying attention. America is evolving into niches. I’m not […]

BTS On SNL

What kind of crazy, fucked-up world do we live in where a Korean boy band sings to track and blows away every performance on SNL this year? One in which Blackpink has been the highlight of Coachella so far. I mean you want to hate BTS, on principle. It’s manufactured, we’ve seen this movie before. […]

Gary Stewart (& Bobby Gale)

It seems we all live so close to that line And so far from satisfaction “Song For Sharon” Joni Mitchell It’s hard to be an aging rocker. If you’ve got a fanbase, you can play your old hits in sheds, maybe arenas if you’re lucky, do endorsement deals, hell, even Iggy Pop has a clothing […]

The Lil Nas X Kerfuffle

Much ado about nothing. Somebody not thinking twice at “Billboard” decides it’s not country and suddenly the entirety of country music is racist. It might be, but the exclusion of “Old Town Road” is not evidence of that. Oh, come on. Listen to the track, does it sound like country to you? Should Falco’s “Rock […]