The story of the week is not Amos Lee entering the chart with an anemic sales total of 40,000.  That’s like seeing your name in print in the newspaper.  All your homies call you up thrilled and the following day you’re forgotten.  Ditto with Cake.  These are not bad stories, the fans come out and […]

This is not a music story. We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969.  Since the conglomerates bought the indie labels.  Because there was so much damn MONEY IN MUSIC! But no more.  Whose fault is that? Don’t blame the consumer.  Don’t say Apple wouldn’t be successful if people stole their products.  At least people […]

Sony backs Doug Morris to show music industry he’s a long-player Who gives a shit what some nobody in the U.K has to say about the most legendary recording executive still working in the business.  The biz is a closed club built on relationships and the opinion of an interloper is irrelevant. Then again, it’s […]

It takes years to make it. Wannabes believe these years are about getting recognized, but they’re really about honing your craft, becoming so good that people do recognize you. Harry Houdini was a tireless self-promoter.  A self-created person who needed to make it, for the fame, the money and the adulation.  Isn’t it interesting that […]