MAJOR LABELS Survive. Because they’ve got the money and the relationships with radio. Wanna compete? Have the money and the relationships. Until the radio hegemony is broken, the major labels will sustain. RADIO It’s the curation, stupid! And the ability to garner and maintain an audience. No one wants to go where no one else […]

Tumblr is for porn. Facebook is for the wannabe famous. Instagram is for those who are too lazy to write. Texting is social currency. It doesn’t matter how many likes or friends or followers you’ve got, but how many people text you and how regularly, that’s how popularity is judged today. Pinterest is inexplicable to […]

MUSIC IN SCHOOLS Forget the rubbish about it boosting your brain, the bottom line is if we want better popular music, more people have to know how to play it. Speak with famous musicians and you’ll be stunned how many started in the school band. They caught the bug and stuck with it. With the […]

The Mighty Storm Al Kooper strikes again. Peter Bradley Adams was one half of a duo entitled eastmountainsouth signed to DreamWorks whose album was so overmassaged and spent upon that it sunk under its own weight and the act broke up. Times were a’ changin’, we were hitting the indie era, it was more about […]