Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


The Sound City Movie

The Sound City Movie She was that kind of lady Times are hard Desperation and desire. The key elements to rock stardom. And Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham had both. She’s back in town And she’s looking around From Phoenix to San Francisco to Hollywood. That’s where you had to end up. You could start […]

The Harlem Shake Phenomenon

It’s the ultimate in participation. It all started with rap. You didn’t need training, you didn’t need to know anything about music or the music business. You just lifted a track and freestyled above it. Then came reality television. Where suddenly people could be famous for nothing. Whether it be the denizens of the “Real […]

Twenty Feet From Stardom

This movie is going to make Lisa Fischer a star. Just like Ry Cooder went to Cuba and brought the Buena Vista Social Club to prominence, the unheralded Fischer will get a victory lap she didn’t anticipate, and she deserves it, because she’s just that damn good. I love going to the movies during the […]

Clive Correction

He does have a website. But it doesn’t show up on the first page of Google, the only one that counts. Actually, I went all the way to page 14 of Google and I still didn’t find it, even though I did see the link for the Clive Davis Institute at NYU on page 7. […]