Today you’re selling streams, not physical product, and they’re doing a piss-poor job of it. There are two issues in today’s music business: attention and friction. The Stones have the attention element down pretty well, but they’re flummoxed by friction, how are they going to get people to actually listen to “Foreign Tongues”? Now the […]

I’m not a Marshall McLuhan maven, but one thing is for sure, the internet has changed the message, and too many refuse to accept this. It crosses all art forms, from books to movies, but here I’m going to focus on music. It starts off with short. No one is going to dedicate a lot […]

You’re trying to get lucky. And to do that, you’ve got to go where the people are, and that’s social media. Let’s leave aside the potential deleterious effects of social media, the bottom line is that’s where trends are started, where records are broken, where true fans live, and when you’re not on TikTok, Instagram […]