So this is what it’s come to. A recorded music industry battered for 16 years, which has seen 60% of its revenue evaporate, has learned nothing, circled the wagons and left the customer out. That’s right, Napster was a consumer revolution. At this late date, only Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker are demonized, but if […]

“The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years” Every artist should see this movie. It could ignite Beatlemania all over again. But it’s the arc that gets to you. Four lads with no future forced to believe in themselves turn into jaded men who just can’t do it the same way anymore. That’s […]

I came to hear “I Took A Pill In Ibiza,” but I got so much more! It was the most meaningful gig in memory, I couldn’t play the radio on the way home, I was numb, I was basking in the experience. I didn’t expect this, when we spoke in the green room…he wasn’t completely […]

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 […]