Do you need anybody? Last night I went down to USC to hear George Martin tell the story of the making of "Sgt. Pepper". Not that I usually go to NARAS events. But a friend I only know from the Internet bought me a ticket. And despite my arriving thirty minutes past the time of […]

Is the music business going the way of the movie business? Huh? I thought everybody was FOLLOWING the music business, that the labels were the first to get raped by the Internet and now it’s movies, newspapers and TV’s turn. That’s all true. But what’s left of the music business is based on touring, and […]

I’m trying to decide whether to go to the Coldplay gig Monday night. I didn’t even know that Coldplay was going to be in town. Not because I don’t care about the band, but because it’s impossible to know what’s going on anymore. There’s not one site that lists every concert happening, at least not […]

Don’t send ’em. Unless you’re a publicly traded corporate behemoth like Live Nation or you’re an old wave band, owned by the media, that has no idea who its fans are. I just delete ’em. I wonder what makes you send them. Especially to me. Do I ever do hype? Never. But you keep sending […]