"If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don’t address themselves to audiences, they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others […]

From: Chris FrantzSubject: Re-Lying Greetings from France, Bob. I remember Larry Butler well. We visited many a radio station and record store together promoting Talking Heads. He’s a good guy and I look forward to reading his book. Let me just say one thing about Tom Verlaine, though. I don’t think Tom ever recommended any […]

"Lopez dumped from "Idol" after seeking raise to $17 million" I’m reading Larry Butler’s book. "Larry Butler, who’s that?" Mr. Butler was an artist development guy at Warner Brothers forever, when it was still the WB we knew and loved. And before that he was a musician, he opened for the Stones! Well, I’m getting […]

You’d read an article about that, right? Actually, I caught up a week late, reading the responses, in the "New York" magazine that just arrived today. And after finishing that issue, I delved into the prior one, containing the aforementioned article, which was billed on the cover as "Does Money Make You Mean? How even […]