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Springsteen At The Sports Arena

I was there the first time around, for “The River” tour at the Sports Arena, back in ’81, I went with my friend Robin who liked me and had huge boobs but who I just couldn’t touch. I’d just stopped living with my live-in girlfriend. And I coped by going to UCLA Extension, where I […]

Founders

Don’t take no for an answer. But when their product is in the marketplace to no acclaim, to little adoption, they pivot. He who is invested in the present will get lost in the future. Founders remember when they were broke, what it took to gain traction, managers can do only thus. Which is why […]

Disruption

Enterprise topples when it does its job too well. And right now the major labels are doing an exceptional job, especially for themselves. Forget the old turn of the century construct, that the labels were doomed because of the internet. Turned out when chaos reigns he with the most infrastructure and relationships wins. If you’re […]

“7 Years” Lukas Graham

“7 Years” Lukas Graham – Spotify “7 Years” Lukas Graham – YouTube There hasn’t been a single reference to this act in the “Los Angeles Times” other than minor listings of television and concert appearances. The only reference in the “New York Times” is an August 8th story wherein Margarethe Vestager, the Dane who is […]