“Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships, Airplay, And The Art Of Rock Promotion”: https://rb.gy/l4m82v This is the best book about how it used to be. And it certainly ain’t that way anymore. Sometime early in this century everybody started to say the record business was no longer fun. This book tells the story of when it was […]

If I see one more story about “White Lotus”… The “Wall Street Journal” did a piece on the effect on Four Seasons Hotels. “Vanity Fair” wrote about Aimee Lou Wood’s teeth. And do you know how many people have e-mailed me about this HBO/MAX show? ZERO! But my inbox is blowing up about “Adolescence.” And […]

https://rb.gy/1mvqok “‘You’re so smart!’ she said accusingly, ‘I never understood it! Why would someone so smart be fixated on pop music?’” That’s what Percy’s mother tells her. My mother went to see my shrink to complain all I wanted to do was buy records and go to concerts, couldn’t I get on the right track? […]

Producer Howard Benson has worked with acts as varied as the All-American Rejects and Kelly Clarkson. You know his hit with Hoobastank, “The Reason,” as well as P.O.D.’s “Payable on Death” and multiple records with Three Days Grace. This is his story, how he made it and how he produces records. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/howard-benson/id1316200737?i=1000698070284       […]