“Drake accuses Universal Music Group and Spotify of unfairly promoting Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’”: https://t.ly/wi2pY “Drake Files Second Action Against UMG, Alleging Defamation Over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘False’ Song”: https://t.ly/32_oO Who knows what the truth is. But one thing is for sure, the credibility of Universal and Spotify is in question. In a world where […]

Subject: RE: 74 Of ’74 For an interesting exercise, compare this 50-years-after-the-fact list with the Top Album list Rolling Stone actually issued in 1974. The original list had jazz or jazz-fusion albums in each of the top five spots. In this list, the top-rated jazz album is Miles Davis at 32 – and Miles wasn’t […]

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ELECTION Mainstream media doesn’t reach everybody, even though the Democrats thought it would. MUSIC BUSINESS Print means nothing, TV little, except for SNL and CBS Sunday Morning, yet the labels keep focusing on these outlets. As for radio… Find me anyone under 20 who listens to terrestrial radio, I can’t. But labels keep focusing on […]