I saw David Guetta standing on a street corner in Ibiza ignored by the teeming masses streaming right by him to enter Pacha, where long after midnight he’d “spin records” and have the assembled multitude dancing with their arms in the air, thrilled just to be alive. I was in Colorado. I didn’t plan not […]

Blog: Join Us to Stop the Discrimination Against Internet Radio He’s on the wrong side. His own. Read any financial analysis and you’ll learn investors are not bullish on Pandora, because it pays most of its income in royalties. Is this the listener’s problem? Is this the artist’s problem? Is this anything but Tim Westergren’s […]

The problem is Amanda Palmer! Don’t you get it? A scrappy young ‘un who understands the new technology is ripping off her brethren, all the classically-trained musicians who’ve got no idea who she is who were thinking about strolling down to her gigs to play for free. Don’t you get it? This is exactly how […]

I’ll take you there! She doesn’t tweet. I doubt many people under forty have any idea who she is. But last night, Mavis Staples positively killed at the Greek. She evidenced all the elements that made music the preferred art form of the baby boomers, a religion. It was all about sound, it had nothing […]