Hayes Carll is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Texas. We discuss how he performed virtually during the pandemic, as well as what it’s like to be a touring musician singing his truth today and the tension between needing to have a presence online yet still focus on the work. Hayes also describes what it’s like to […]

Were terrible. “Grammys Viewership Edges Out Last Year’s Record Low With Minor Gain”: https://bit.ly/3r3zw3V And that’s putting a positive spin on it. The story of the last two plus decades in the record business has been disruption. But the Grammy organization keeps on doing the same damn thing and expecting different results. A woman was […]

The producer can only do so much. At least the Grammys are smart enough to get an outsider, as opposed to the Oscars, which constantly use someone from their industry with ties to the past and no skill putting on a TV show. But Ben Winston can’t control the voting. Everyone agrees that last night’s […]

I saw it. My inbox is inundated with punters laughing at and criticizing me, if only I’d watched the Oscars, I would have seen the slap. But right after it happened I got a text. And then an e-mail with the uncensored Japanese clip. So in fact I was more up to speed than those […]