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, […]

The first ten minutes is the best advertisement for the music business this decade. There’s been too much focus on the negative for this entire century. And it’s all about the decline in revenue of recorded music. There’s industry infighting, bitching about streaming, hosannas about vinyl, meanwhile the public doesn’t care. It’s a struggle out […]

It’s terrible. Robin Wright is superb, Kevin Spacey is believable in every role he plays, he’s America’s greatest actor, not Meryl Streep, but they can only do so much with the material, which is underwritten and confusing and concerns a plot point that we’re not interested in. How did this HAPPEN? The loss of showrunner […]