Is it because she’s a woman? Because she’s gay? Because she’s a New Yorker? Because she doesn’t have a manager? Because she is an intellectual? She KILLS every time she’s on TV, she has a rapier wit and a confidence nonpareil, aren’t those the elements of stardom? Maybe she missed her chance. She was hyped […]

It’s not about the money… It’s about the money. That’s a music business aphorism. For those who didn’t go to college, that means, according to the Oxford Dictionary, built into my Mac, “a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’” You don’t have to go to […]

The internet killed the music business. That’s right, it wasn’t only about recording revenues, it was about UBIQUITY! Walk into an exec’s office in the nineties and MTV was on. That’s what broke Dre big, rap too, sure Jimmy got Snoop and Dre on the cover of “Rolling Stone,” but even though that rag is […]

There were billboards on Sunset Boulevard. It’s hard to fathom the music business, it’s hard to fathom Los Angeles, if you weren’t there in the seventies. The dream had died, Nixon was elected, Tom Wolfe named it the “Me Decade” and at the advent of the next decade Reagan legitimized greed, the boomers grew up, […]