Take The Highway – Spotify And the time has finally come For me to pack my bags and walk away Southern rock started as R&B. Duane Allman was playing sessions in Muscle Shoals and Phil Walden was managing Otis Redding. But then… It didn’t happen overnight, it was years in gestation, a group of players […]

While oldsters were focused on piracy and streaming payments, youngsters swooped in and stole the music business, and it’s definitely not business as usual. First and foremost you must be part of a culture, otherwise you don’t succeed. Acts are built online, radio is at most a cherry on top, and you gain interest and […]

Music Media Summit Two new speakers. Ethiopia Habtemariam, President of Motown, and Steve Boom, head of Amazon Music. Ethiopia spearheaded the new Migos album and so much more. Steve is a stealth operator for the kingpin of online commerce. Apple gets all the ink, but it’s Amazon which is the comer, because of its integration […]

It was about the store on Sunset. When you came to L.A., you went to the Whisky, the Troubadour, the Roxy and… Tower Records. It was on Sunset, in the era when there were billboards for albums. And on the outside of the nondescript building were paintings of albums. This was where music lived. And […]