I don’t care. Oh, don’t get me wrong. It’s sad that a kid has a frightful disease, it’s cool that his wish came true. But if you think this is news, you probably don’t know that Obamacare was supposed to save our nation’s health care industry, not destroy it. Marketing. Virality. These are things the […]

Howard’s the new buzz. Used to be you did Stern last, Gaga was smart enough to do Stern first. Yes, yesterday, the day her new album was released, Lady Gaga appeared on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show to talk and play, and the Internet and mainstream media are abuzz about it. Howard may be unavailable […]

McGuinness could never break another hit act. That’s the mark of a great manager, the ability to do it more than once. One of the best managers most people have never heard of? Gary Borman. He built Faith Hill, Lady Antebellum and Keith Urban, and knows it’s who’s onstage who counts, not the genius behind […]

Live by the hit, die by the hit. Phil Solem told me people had no idea how much work it took to have a hit record. With a long history of less than successful projects between them, Phil Solem and Danny Wilde reunited in the latter’s garage on the wrong side of the hill to […]