Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


BBC Music Moguls-Myth Makers

BBC Music Moguls Masters Of Pop 3 of 3 Myth Makers 720p Kanye West is playing the media like a fiddle. You’re sitting at home scratching your head. How does a guy without a hit record sell out Madison Square Garden for a fashion show? The media made him hot, it reports on everything Kanye […]

Gregory Porter At Capitol Studio A

This guy could be the new Norah Jones. The lane is wide open, it’s unoccupied, it’s just that the American media has refused to embrace someone with talent whilst trumpeting young nincompoops in an effort to look hip. I went to pay fealty. It took me an hour forty to get there from Santa Monica, […]

Tommy LiPuma On Dan Hicks

Re: Dan Hicks Dear Bob, I can’t tell you how pleased I was to read your post on Dan Hicks. First, it helped bring me out of a deep funk I had been in since his wife Clare called me Saturday morning with the news that Dan had passed. Also, it was great to read […]

Coldplay At The Super Bowl

And the winner of the night? HONDA! For offering free Uber rides home, at least in SoCal, where I was watching. You make the most of an opportunity. The advertisements were so busy being clever that they missed their target. You want to make us believe in your product and want to use and buy […]