That is the lesson of the Grateful Dead. Forget all this hogwash about the penumbra, the tape trading, the community, the free music, it really came down to the show. You just couldn’t get that experience anywhere else. The records were imperfect, not a reasonable representation of the band. And although the gigs were spotty, […]

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 […]