Is not yesterday’s fandom. Every other day I have people attacking me for what I said about Taylor Swift’s performance at the Grammys over a decade ago. When I research further, I find that most of these people were barely born when this happened. But they need to defend their hero. But Taylor Swift was […]

Turns out buying your way into the future is a bad strategy. The biggest story this week for me was Facebook (I refuse to call it “Meta,” I’m on the fence with calling Google “Alphabet”) dropping out of the crypto game. Facebook wasn’t first. Facebook had infrastructure. But when confronted with the concept of Facebook […]

This isn’t about Spotify. This is about misinformation, and drawing a line in the sand. It’s also about Neil Young and his credibility. For decades we’ve heard that selling out doesn’t matter, that you should take the money, that you should become a brand, that your music is just a step towards becoming a conglomerate, […]

You can’t get traction. And everybody who says they’re a worldwide star known by everyone is lying. Music used to be a controlled marketplace. The big hurdle was distribution. Retail paid incredibly slowly, and they tended to only pay those with a continuing conveyor belt of product. So if you were an indie, even if […]