Eric Church: The Defiant One “Back In Black” was “the most important thing to happen to me as a young man.” What is “popular”? It certainly ain’t what it used to be. The music industry runs on the past, even though when done right the music it purveys pushes the envelope, arguably, that’s what’s wrong […]

It’s not 2005 anymore, certainly not 2010, virality is dead, bubbling up from the bottom doesn’t exist, and the big get bigger. For a while there it looked like Madison Avenue was faltering. And if you follow the ad biz, you’ll see that the agencies are challenged, fearful of being cut out by the middlemen, […]

There are no rules, the infrastructure’s been built, now is the time to follow your vision, don’t listen to naysayers, don’t listen to me, you will break through with your art if you are an artist, most people are not, they just want attention, they just want to be rich and famous, but if you […]

It was astounding. If you want to know what it was like in ’68, if you want to steep yourself in the concert experience from way back when, go to this show. First and foremost it was in a theatre. Hard to believe, but the acts lamented the move to arenas at first, because of […]