I was sitting at my desk, doing homework, listening to WABC broadcast the hits, when the music was interrupted with the news that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated. I was alone. It was a shock. Because it came out of the blue, was completely unexpected. As was the shooting of RFK not long […]

Is everything. If you can’t buy it, it doesn’t matter how good it is. I bought something on Amazon. My usual seller was out, so I opted for a competitor and when the merchandise arrived, the packaging was different. And in this case the packaging is key. So I decided to return it. Which is […]

This is what made me write the “Fandom” post. Newsom’s been all over my social media feeds giving it back to Trump and the Republicans, but in the mainstream media…crickets. Until today. Today the “Times,” Politico, Yahoo and more got on board. But the account he’s posting from still only has 430,000 X(Twitter) followers. But […]

Bob, These are good points…let’s also remind everyone that Spotify created a previously non-existent middle class.  In the last 60 years, around 2,900 major label artists (give or take 1,000) have amassed an audience and brand large enough, that to this day, they drive enough traffic to generate at least $50,000/year in Spotify streaming revenue. […]