YOU’RE NEVER BORED There’s always stimulation at your fingertips, whether it be Netflix streaming on demand or books delivered wirelessly to your tablet. We always wondered what it was like living in the pre-TV era, never mind the 1800s, when there were vast stretches of emptiness in your day. Now we marvel at the last […]

Nate Silver told me Donald Trump can’t win. You remember Brother Nate, who called the last election which Mitt Romney thought he was gonna win and Karl Rove couldn’t believe he lost. Silver got it exactly right in the “New York Times,” which unlike a winning sports team didn’t give him what he wanted, so […]

Now everything is entertainment, everything is just grist for the mill. That gig the paper says was sold out? Probably wasn’t. Those sales figures that indie act is touting? You’d be best to cut them by 90%. The entertainment business has always been built upon smoke and mirrors. The truth hurts and the populace did […]

Tech is evanescent. Music, when done right, is forever. Steve Jobs famously said he was creating tools, to enable the creations of others. Musicians are at the end of the line, they are the creators. Social media is about providing a service. You’re beholden to your customers, you follow them. Musicians walk into the wilderness […]