https://rb.gy/1mvqok “‘You’re so smart!’ she said accusingly, ‘I never understood it! Why would someone so smart be fixated on pop music?’” That’s what Percy’s mother tells her. My mother went to see my shrink to complain all I wanted to do was buy records and go to concerts, couldn’t I get on the right track? […]

Producer Howard Benson has worked with acts as varied as the All-American Rejects and Kelly Clarkson. You know his hit with Hoobastank, “The Reason,” as well as P.O.D.’s “Payable on Death” and multiple records with Three Days Grace. This is his story, how he made it and how he produces records. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/howard-benson/id1316200737?i=1000698070284       […]

“Why a Chinese Gadget Company Can Make an Electric Car and Apple Can’t – Xiaomi, which produces smartphones and consumer electronics, delivered 135,000 E.V.s last year after tapping China’s robust manufacturing supply chain.” Free link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/business/china-xiaomi-apple-electric-cars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.004.JrHO.YaLEg8q5xxnh&smid=url-share This is why you read mainstream news. My inbox is full of those who decry the mainstream news. They […]

MTV had it right. You don’t age with the audience, you pick your target demo and recreate your product to appeal to them. Otherwise, you die. Of course MTV died anyway. Superseded by music video on the internet. But everything is time-stamped, don’t you know? But for a few decades there, MTV ruled not only […]