I blew ninety minutes on this last night and my only regret is it ended. I famously say I live in California because of the Beach Boys. And if you don’t believe me, you’ve never heard “California Girls”. But by time I’d graduated from college and was footloose and fancy free, the music had changed. […]

Zynga, Groupon and now Facebook. They’re Internet darlings, the buzz is incredible, they go public and the stock plunges. Are they one hit wonders? The Internet’s a funny place. Everybody is findable and reachable but most content goes unknown, forever sitting deep in Google unclicked upon. And then there are those pages that go monstrous […]

"If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don’t address themselves to audiences, they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others […]

If you’re waiting for a woman to take over Universal Music or Live Nation… First and foremost, Marissa Mayer is an engineer. A far cry from the contestants on "Idol" who can’t write songs, the wannabes with no experience who believe they should be at the top of the pop chart. Hell, in music it’s […]