“Walk My Walk” went to number one! And the media couldn’t stop talking about it. Musicians are freaking out about it. And my inbox is filling up about it. And there’s no story here. The truth is Breaking Rust’s AI song “Walk My Walk” sold digital singles, which are weighted artificially high in the “Billboard” […]

“Consumer Reports” used to be my bible. But now it’s the Wirecutter. Now let me be clear… I don’t trust CR on that which I’m an expert. But there’s so much I don’t know, it’s good to have an outlet of expertise. But CR doesn’t review everything. And is still operating on a pre-internet paradigm, […]

It’s not about money, but getting people to even listen to your music. To think of your business as just records and shows is to think too small. The twentieth century paradigm is dead, but people don’t stop expecting it to deliver for them. They want to be tapped by a label, get a deep […]

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 […]