This is not a harbinger of what’s to come, this is the last gasp of a dead paradigm. In other words, record reviews are history. We needed them. Because there was no way to hear most of the music. We needed guidance before we laid down our cold hard cash. And we got to the […]

PUBLICITY There must be a story, that first and foremost intrigues the writer who believes it will intrigue the reader, otherwise the effort is worthless. Many publicity people will take your money and they’ll send out mailings to people like me who will instantly delete them. If all you want is a listing that your […]

Peter Gabriel has a new album, are you gonna listen? Probably not. There was a time when a new Peter Gabriel album was an event, a great leap forward, remember when he opened the Grammys with “Steam”? I think it was the opening, maybe just during the show, I don’t remember, but I do remember […]

If you’re only interested in money… I got an e-mail about this last Thursday, when it went live. Before I saw it on the WaPo site. Would I have seen it anyway? Probably. It was never the top story, but it was featured pretty prominently in the app. But no one else contacted me about […]