I hate Eddie Vedder. But not as much as I hate Sean Penn. Sean Penn is a phenomenal actor. Where he acquired his superior, holier-than-thou attitude, I’ll never know. He takes himself so seriously. Everything he does is so important. We’re supposed to feel privileged to be exposed to his art. But the movies he […]

In all the bloviating about Obama, I haven’t heard one pundit cop to the fact that MTV is responsible for his success. In case you haven’t noticed, Barack Obama is an African-American, he’s BLACK! Only thirty five years ago, this was a punch line in "Blazing Saddles". We lived in a country ripe with racism. […]

At this point we can agree that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ruined not only radio, but the record business.  The key to selling records is exposure.  And once all the stations consolidated, became homogeneous, the public tuned out, there was no consensus. The consensus has evaded satellite radio.  Even Howard Stern speaks to a […]

I’m going to make a prediction. The major labels are not going to control the future. This is important not only because the majors controlled the past, but because they’re trying to control the future. And as the media chronicles each and every flailing, defensive effort, the sea change in consumption of music is being […]