“King of Them All – The Story of King Records”: https://www.pbs.org/show/king-of-them-all-the-story-of-king-records/ I could watch this sh*t all day long. I love to learn, and I learned a lot watching this documentary. From the very first time I met him, in a crowd at the Troubadour, Seymour Stein talked about Syd Nathan. And seemingly every time […]

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 […]

Is everything. If you can’t buy it, it doesn’t matter how good it is. I bought something on Amazon. My usual seller was out, so I opted for a competitor and when the merchandise arrived, the packaging was different. And in this case the packaging is key. So I decided to return it. Which is […]

1 I watched it. I’ve been flummoxed by the ticket sales for festivals headlined by pop acts. For a boomer who grew up on the Beatles and the ensuing classic rock, this is unfathomable. Pop was the enemy. No there there. We dug our teeth into “artists,” people who honed their skills, wrote their own […]