You’re gonna need something to write about. Practice is important, perfecting your skill, but being a really good guitar player or a really good vocalist is kind of like being a really good computer, you’re just a tool, you’re essentially inert, you can’t be believed in. Or look at professional athletes. As successful as their […]

Howard Bloom: Success in Music Industry Watch this clip. I barely know Howard Bloom. But there was an era when not only was he a kingpin in music publicity, he towered over his competition, he was an artist in the field. No one works in a vacuum. Just like in the clip Bloom says you’ve […]

You remember the art chick in high school. She looked different, didn’t really care if you noticed her, didn’t seem to play by the rules, wasn’t on a direct path to riches, but you never forgot her, never stopped watching her. The art chicks were yesterday’s rock stars. They will be tomorrow’s too. And we […]

199. Owl City "All Things Bright And Beautiful" Sales this week: 2,133Percentage change: +15Weeks on: 12Cume: 96,770 Remember that hit a couple of years back. It was… The name eludes me… Of course it was "Fireflies". Just because you have a hit once, that does not mean you’ve got a career. I’ll argue the slower […]