The nip slip was the best thing to ever happen to the Super Bowl. After Prince’s triumphant performance that is. Quick, name who won that nip slip game! Or even last year’s game? The Super Bowl is a national holiday wherein we all come together to eat too much, get drunk and have fun. A […]

Not that you’d know that. The news story is how Songkick flubbed the sale by revealing buyers’ info. Songkick says nothing of consequence was revealed. But the public flips out over data breaches. Rightfully so. All of which means it’s hard to do big things on a big scale. And despite so many flaws in […]

Music is turning into baseball. There’s no sense of history. For all the fealty paid to classic rock, the truth is the past gets very little ink, even though it can dominate listening. And if you’re not the Beatles or Pink Floyd you may get neither, no attention and no streams. And that’s just plain […]

1. MUSIC, NOT TRENDS There’s been a huge focus on what’s hot as opposed to what’s good. John Seabrook delineated the “track and hook” singles that dominate today’s Top Forty, but could it be that old-fashioned melody, with memorable changes and a good vocal, is what most people really want to hear? Could it be […]