If Van Morrison can play "Astral Weeks" at the Hollywood Bowl can’t the original Santana get together there and perform "Abraxas"? Hey, it doesn’t even have to be the original players.  Just as long they only perform music from that era.  Not the bogus "Supernatural" crap from the Clive Davis period.  Create new stuff like […]

1. Taylor Swift "Fearless" Sales this week: 592,304Debut Mr. Lefsetz, The one thing you say you are looking for is an artist writing and living in real time and relating it to his/her fans.  Nobody is doing that better than Taylor Swift.  She has an engagement in person and online that is currently second to […]

If I see one more article about Malcolm Gladwell and his book "Outliers" I’m not gonna buy it. I know, seems like a 180, but that’s the risk you take when you promote your band, beating the target audience over the head to such a degree that fans abandon you, worse, say negative shit about […]

Can I recommend half a book? What made "Hit Men" so great wasn’t the narrative so much as the insider information revealed.  We know the story, we want to know the backstory.  Steve Knopper has written the new "Hit Men".  The sequel to Fredric Dannen’s book.  But it only goes up to the twenty first […]