Once upon a time, Nick Lowe was Mutt Lange. The world’s most famous, most revered, record producer. But their styles were completely different. Mutt is a micro-manager, Nick put everybody in a room, pushed up the faders and tried to capture the magic. And that he did, on Elvis Costello’s game-changing debut, "My Aim Is […]

I don’t know this woman, I know nothing of her book, I’m just reprinting this to illustrate what a creator has to do to get noticed, to make it today. It’s no different for a band. You can’t rely on the company, you’ve got to rely on YOURSELF! Hey Bob, Your comment about Amazon’s Kindle […]

R.E.M. I heard a good track off their new album on L.A.’s new terrestrial station, "The Sound", today. I still think the outlet’s branding sucks, "World Class Rock", "The Sound", what the fuck do they mean, but the playlist has improved. It’s good if you’re living in 2001, pre-iPod, when you had to sit through […]

1. The Electronic Arts guy said sales of video games in South Korea were tanking. They went from around eight million bucks a year to two… The bosses in the U.S. freaked out. They fired a ton of people. One of the newbies asked if he could experiment with a lame game, do something different… […]