“Ratings for Grammy Awards Drop 24 Percent” It’s the end of the monoculture. There’s a fiction we all care about the same things. We don’t. The ascension of the importance of the Grammys coincided with the MTV era, and that ended nearly twenty years ago. So why did viewership then go up? First of all, […]

#metoo: An Open Letter to Charlie Walk I’m not sure this demands additional comment, but I will say the music business has been curiously quiet when it comes to #metoo and I wonder why, is it because it’s essentially an independent contractor business, one wherein everybody’s too afraid of damaging future relationships to speak up? […]

The Grammys are worthless, despite what Bono extemporaneously said. Made me believe you’re better off reading the script. When you get this old you go for gravitas, you don’t show up for every photo op, but Paul didn’t get the memo, he thinks if he gets facetime his audience will care, but his audience is […]

That was the name of the NAMM panel I was on this morning. I thought it was referencing how to make a record a hit. But everybody else thought it was about creating a hit. And they all had. I ran into Jack Douglas outside. He told me he’d been working with Joe Perry. Great […]