My inbox fills up with both the famous and infamous, the known and the irrelevant, bitching about Spotify payments, they think the Swedish company is the devil. They believe Daniel Ek got rich off the backs of musicians and this wrong must be righted, that there will be no harmony until he is dethroned and […]

1. Melody I know, I know, we live in an era of beats. But the public wants something they can sing along with. The biggest act in the business is Adele, and although she faltered with “25,” her previous album, “21,” outsold its competition by a factor of ten. You could sing along with the […]

They’re afraid. The dirty little secret of the last tour is it didn’t go clean, there were tickets available here and there. With all that production, with all those breakthroughs, with all that press… People didn’t want to hear the new songs. Ed Sheeran put out a couple of numbers last week and broke records. […]

1. No one is hip. When someone makes fun of you for not knowing something, laugh it off. The truth is in today’s overwhelming society no one can know everything. No one can see every movie, no one can see every TV show, no one can listen to every record. Used to be professionals would […]