Richard Griffiths ran Epic in the U.S. Harry Magee ran A&M in the U.K. Together they run a Modest! Management, most famous for handling One Direction. But they also manage Five Seconds Of Summer, whose success they built on the back of 1D. And now they’re building Hey Violet on the back of 5SOS. Jessarae […]

“Fix” was number one on Mediabase. But it was nowhere to be found on Spotify’s “Hot Country” playlist, which includes fifty one songs and is three hours and nine minutes long. I’d never heard it, “Fix” that is. A cut by newcomer Chris Lane that resembles your preconception of country not a whit. It’s closer […]

I  bought blue sneakers because that’s what Dean was wearing on the cover of the live album “Command Performance.” And they were not easy to find. In Fairfield, Connecticut, everybody wore P.F. Flyers or Keds, in white, black had gone out with the fifties, this was not California, Fairfield’s a lonely town when you’re the […]

Me On CNNi I can’t look at myself on screen and maybe you’ll find it painful too! I swear the hair I’ve got left has gone gray since the surgery and…when did I get so old? It’ll happen to you, isn’t that what our parents said? So I don’t believe in self-promotion and if you […]