You’ve got to own the future. It’s great to ride the crest of today, but those who survive anticipate the future and their place therein. That’s the flaw of the music business, from top to bottom. What is "Billboard"’s plan? Now that record sales mean almost nothing and information is free online, where does it […]

So I’m riding the Eagle Bahn gondola and the twentysomethings are talking about Pandora and I ask them if they’ve tried Spotify radio yet. Silence. They were dumbfounded. They pegged me for an old fart. But after I did a bit of explaining we started talking music, what they listened to. And it all came […]

This is just the beginning. Who wouldn’t love a rock band fronted by an overweight black woman? It rings true in an era of overhyped, overmassaged, oversurgeried TV music stars who are no different from the citizens in "Wall-E", fat on the past and unwilling to take a risk in the future. But that doesn’t […]

So I’m reading Michael Lewis’s "Blind Side" about Lawrence Taylor and Bill Parcells says it’s not LT’s speed, his height or his build…but his will to win that makes him so successful. Do you need to win? If not, you’ll probably never make it in the music business. You might be able to schlep the […]