Are you best off: 1. Getting 3 minutes on CNN. 2. Getting published in the Sunday Opinion section of the "New York Times" and having your column reach #6 on the most emailed list. 3. Having "a guest post you wrote, published on the blog of one lone dude in SF obsessed with fat loss, […]

Too many people are watching the ball. Last week it was announced that sales were marginally up. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Now of course it’s not bad, but does it indicate a renaissance, or a momentary reprieve or is it completely irrelevant? We’ve lost the ability to build stars. At […]

Barry Fey It’s not well-written, but you can’t put it down. The public did not kill the music business. Blame MTV, Bob Sillerman, the Telecommunications Act of 1996. But don’t blame the people. The people know the power of sound. They know greatness when they hear it. But greed squeezed integrity out of the music […]

Our favorites are rarely the hits. I’ve burned out on country. Because it’s so formulaic. It’s like everybody in Nashville has to wear a cowboy hat and sing about God and family. You’d think everybody’s in church, never swears and has no pain that is not shared in a prayer circle. Once upon a time […]