Hanging with a bunch of douche bag insiders for a week? WORTHLESS! Performing on the telecast or winning one of the top four awards? PRICELESS! Welcome to 2018, where you just can’t get your message out. There’s too much noise. How are you going to cut through that clutter? By appearing on the Grammy telecast. […]

He’s not happy. But that’s the ethos of an artist, not a businessman. And we’ve all become business people. In the limited rock press, a fraction of what it is today, filled with press releases and the mass opinions of the great unwashed, Elliott Murphy got traction with his 1973 album “Aquashow.” But it was […]

Maybe we’ve got it all wrong. Maybe the record isn’t the advertisement for the live show, but the live show is the advertisement for the record! Think about this. It’s only been a hundred years or so that we’ve had recorded music. But prior to that, for millennia, music triumphed. And it wasn’t until the […]

Huh? Weren’t we supposed to live in a word of mouth economy, where the cream rose to the top? NO! Actually, never forget that distribution is king. Did you read that NBC tied in with Netflix for the Olympics, with a two hour special? Millennials are cord-cutters, they don’t even see NBC, but they all […]