Lyor might be pilloried, but he’s doing better than Jimmy. How can that be? A drum roll please… The label with the greatest market share of current product year to date is…ATLANTIC RECORDS! Hell, if you include catalog, Atlantic is #2 to RIGA. Jimmy’s got 7.45% of the overall market, including catalog, and Atlantic 7… […]

Last night I caught the Republic Tigers on Letterman. No, I was not surfing. As a matter of fact, I was watching a recording of "The Deadliest Catch". But I went back to live TV because I got an e-mail from a friend, telling me the band was going to be on. How RIDICULOUS! Oh, […]

Wants to believe. I just finished reading the Eagles story in "Rolling Stone". Halfway through I wondered why. I decided it was because it was written by Charles M. Young, one of the legendary second wave "Rolling Stone" writers, and because I cared, I had an investment. I’d bought the debut on a whim, knowing […]

Forget Michael Buffer and the ridiculous boxing analogy, the screaming meemies and the endless Coke ads (with Simon even drinking from a logo-emblazoned red cup!), what struck me about the "American Idol" final duel was these two cats didn’t write the songs. David Cook did an almost credible version of "I Still Haven’t Found What […]