THE HUFFPO SPOTIFY STORY Are you getting this in your inbox? Some nobody named Blake Morgan who insists Spotify is screwing musicians wrote a letter that was posted on the HuffPo and then taken down and this screed is now being tossed around online like it’s the Ten Commandments, or at least the Dead Sea […]

There’s only room for one majordomo, and it’s not him. People forget that Jimmy was an independent, a record producer, who ultimately teamed with Ted Field to start a label, i.e. Interscope. And ask someone under thirty if they know who Field is, I doubt it, he’s a footnote, although Ted did have a great […]

Are they headliner dependent? And is every American festival turning into Glastonbury, an institution where the flavor of the moment appears? Then again, Glastonbury is famous for comebacks. Coachella started as a genre festival. Lollapalooza too, at least in its traveling incarnation. Bonnaroo was a jam band gathering. Now they all have the same headliners, […]

They blew it. Show business is about perception, not reality. And the perception is that Taylor Swift is a self-satisfied performer who needs to be the biggest and the baddest and is not. You don’t want to be able to get a ticket. If I hear one more promoter talk about slow ticketing I’m gonna […]