There’s got to be a better way to sell music. Think about it, we’re now all connected, worldwide, if the right act were pushed, it could become gargantuan overnight. And that brings us to our first problem…we’re pushing the wrong acts. I just read a fascinating article about Groupon in the "Wall Street Journal".  And […]

The New Rock-Star Paradigm Read this.  Not because it’s a blueprint for your success, but because it illustrates the decline of the major label paradigm.  Today you’ve got to do it for yourself.  If you’re waiting for someone else to help you, you’re waiting to be enslaved, if anybody pays attention at all. Attention…  How […]

Bob – You’re 100% on Laura Nyro. She demands something of the listener; respectful attention to who she is and appreciation for her integrity and risks she takes without thinking about how it may look to others.  Nothing about Laura is "off the rack!" Artists who are totally in their own skins are rare indeed […]

It snowed on Friday night. Now not only does it not rain in Southern California, it certainly doesn’t snow, except in the mountains, which are as high as some Rockies, which always stuns people when they see them through the smog.  But I remember snow.  I grew up in Connecticut.  I went to college in […]