You should care. Whether you live in London or Dubai, whether you’re old enough to vote or a felon who cannot. Because the polls were wrong and Gillum won. But it was more than that. He focused on YouTube instead of television. And he didn’t triangulate, the old Clinton playbook is dead, you speak from […]

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Spotify I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard “Sweet Home Alabama.” I’d graduated from college only months before. Talk about a weird experience. What am I gonna do next? In my case I was gonna be a ski bum in Little Cottonwood Canyon, i.e. Alta & Snowbird. My […]

Grab your things I’ve come to take you home These were not the original lines in “Solsbury Hill,” the words had to do with “taxi” and “tube” and Ezrin said there was no way they were going on the LP. And the lyrics you know, the ones above, weren’t cut until the very end of […]

Spotify’s in trouble, its licenses are going to expire! Nicki Minaj produced a tweetstorm about Spotify, claiming the company put the kibosh on her album! Music distribution is mature. The news outlets don’t want this to be so, so they keep printing headlines that make you think otherwise. But the truth is the music business […]