They used to dominate the music landscape. People who were the “other,” who seemed to march to a different drummer, whose values were different from those of the rat race. Like Woody Guthrie. Like Bob Dylan. Like the Rolling Stones. Sure, eventually the Stones became members of the glitterati, but we laughed about it, how […]

This is what the internet has wrought. For fifteen years we heard about recorded music revenue, how the business was being decimated, when the truth is the only people losing power were the labels themselves. Suddenly, the acts were making more. The truth is record deals were a lousy proposition unless you were a superstar […]

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Then there were cellphone cameras. Despite Cameron Crowe depicting the backstage life of a rock star as a pajama party, the truth was completely the opposite. Flawed men abusing women. You’d land in a town, play a show, and there would be groupies willing to service you. They wanted a piece of stardom, they wanted […]