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The New Mick Jagger Tracks

The New Mick Jagger Tracks – Spotify What kind of crazy fucked-up world do we live in where a septuagenarian rock star is hipper than musicians decades, even half a century younger? One in which the single is everything and you drop it unannounced and then you do it all over again. Lather, rinse, repeat. […]

Bieber Stops

The road kills. Used to be you went on the road to promote the record. Now you go on the road to make bucks. Now let’s not make this about Napster, or Spotify either. The truth is if you’re winning on the road, you’re making more dough in adjusted dollars than you were in the […]

Electric Cars & CTE

Is there a connection? In case you’re unaware of today’s JAMA report, 110 of 111 NFL players were found to have CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Now this is a select group, deceased players whose brains have been donated to Boston University, but if even every other dead player since the study began was found to […]

Is All Publicity Good Publicity?

No one talks about Uber anymore. I was listening to Howard Stern interview Robert O’Neill, the guy who shot Bin Laden, and he got me, I fired up my phone and downloaded the sample chapter of his book “The Operator” to my Kindle. Previously the hype had slid off me. I’d seen “Zero Dark Thirty.” […]