Spotify playlist: https://tinyurl.com/mr3r2m3p That’s the new Chris Stapleton album. Came out Friday, and I didn’t know until I saw an ad in the “Billboard Bulletin,” which undercuts my theory that print advertising doesn’t work. But more interestingly, how did I miss this? Was I just too far outside the footprint of the hype or is […]

If you’re only interested in money… I got an e-mail about this last Thursday, when it went live. Before I saw it on the WaPo site. Would I have seen it anyway? Probably. It was never the top story, but it was featured pretty prominently in the app. But no one else contacted me about […]

Say no. If you can’t say no you’re never going to have credibility. You’re selling more than music, you’re selling your identity. I’m not saying you have to be all over social media, I’m just saying your identity should be baked-in to your music. This is why hip-hop eclipsed hair bands. The hair bands were […]

“Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters says Hamas massacre ‘thrown out of all proportion’” That’s from the “Telegraph,” behind a paywall, but you can read the story in the “Jerusalem Post” here: https://tinyurl.com/yvwej9nw or if you need an American source, check out the story and watch the video on “Breitbart” here: https://tinyurl.com/ynccs5rr As far as left wing […]