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Modern Rules

YOU WANT A HIT It anchors your career. There are hitmakers and everybody else. A hit just means something ubiquitous that everybody listens to, chart numbers are unnecessary. Hits can come in a flash via inspiration, but oftentimes they require a huge amount of effort and craft. Are you repeating the verses? Is the chorus […]

Guy Oseary/U2

“U2’s Manager Responds to Backlash: If You Don’t Like This Gift, Delete It” Speaking of tone deaf scumbags… The spam problem is all over the news, I have to delete hundreds of messages a day, but when U2 does it it’s legitimate. Ugh. It’s almost like they don’t live in the real world, like they […]

One Direction At The Rose Bowl

It was incomprehensible. Furthermore, if you weren’t there you probably didn’t know it happened, despite the act selling out two dates and nearly a third, on a Thursday, a school night. And that was who were there. Students. Girls. Wanna get laid? Go to a 1D show. You won’t see odds this good at the […]

Hysteria

I gotta know tonight If you’re alone tonight I wanted to hear “Hysteria” in hi-def. So I fired up my Wimp app and searched, but didn’t find it, other than in its live iteration. That’s right, Def Leppard is at war with Universal. Can’t stop this feeling Can’t stop this fire The album is twenty […]