It’ll probably be a good show. But does that mean you have to watch it? Last year Ben Winston threw out Ken Ehrlich’s “Grammy Moment” playbook and created an intimate affair that seemed to live in the present as opposed to the past. But that does not mean the show will reflect people’s tastes. Prior […]

Matt Sanders, aka M. Shadows, is the lead singer of Avenged Sevenfold. We discuss the band, but most of our talk is about crypto and NFTs and the innovative way Avenged Sevenfold is employing them. This is not selling worthless art, this is about empowering the band’s hard core fans to evangelize. You’ll be fascinated, […]

I feel kinda weird writing during the Oscars. People are e-mailing me and I’ve got a bit of FOMO, but not enough to turn on the show. Tomorrow it will be history, and what I missed today won’t matter. Even worse, nothing seems to matter to everybody these days. Although that’s a great Bonnie Raitt […]

You’ll have a hard time finding another person who listens to the same new music as you. Of course you can go online, or go to a gig and find acolytes of the same act, but the odds of going to work, hanging with friends, and finding commonality in new musical tastes is extremely rare. […]