Somebody e-mailed me an MP3 of "Tattoo" and it sounded positively AWFUL! All compressed, with the vocal right up front, and if I was a self-satisfied smugster I would have said it sucked. But when I listened to a higher res version via my $250 Sennheiser headphones, when I listened on my $1500 AUX speakers, […]

There’s been this b.s. that concert tickets went through the roof because of Napster, that the acts had to make it up somewhere. But that’s just lemmings trying to emulate rich lifestyles, to go back to the cause you’ve got to retreat to 1996, when Bob Sillerman rolled up the concert promoters into what was […]

"The Man Who Owns L.A."(Connie Bruck’s article on Phil Anschutz in this week’s "New Yorker") Suddenly, the New Hampshire primary has become a referendum on private equity. What Barack Obama could not achieve, Newt Gingrich and the Super PACs might accomplish. And that’s to shine a light on banking in this country and ultimately change […]

Could Ed be the biggest star in the U.S. by April? Could Goldenvoice be pissed they didn’t book him at Coachella? It won’t happen quite that fast, but be prepared for an onslaught akin to James Taylor and Elton John in 1970, when suddenly they went from nobody to somebody seemingly overnight. I’m stunned that […]