NIGHT CALL I found out about this via the “New York Times” Watching newsletter. I highly recommend you sign up for it. Not everything mentioned is great, but you can triangulate, do research, before you dive in. Once again, I find streaming algorithms and media hype unreliable. To give you an example, advance word was […]

1 This book is bumming me out. Because that’s the way it was and it’s not that way anymore. There used to be a rock culture with defined steps, you buy an instrument, form a band, play in bars and then try to move up the ladder, get a deal and become a success. Now […]

“The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership that Rocked the World”: http://bit.ly/480ozGy 1 If you’re going to music business school… You’ll learn more in this book than you will in class. Class will teach you the mechanics, the elements of publishing, how to put on a show, you will be […]

“The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership that Rocked the World”: http://bit.ly/480ozGy I never got into Elvis until I went to Graceland. You’ve got to go. As a matter of fact, you’ve got to go to Memphis, which may be in Tennessee like Nashville, but is completely different. Memphis is […]