This story has been buzzing for months, but I point you to a recent article on the decline of new music in the United States: “It’s Official: New Music Is Shrinking In Popularity In The United States”: https://bit.ly/3uZw9gv Is new music not as good? I’d argue that case, but that is not what is happening […]

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Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/3O70Erp 1 “Songs In the Attic” is my favorite Billy Joel album. I got on the Billy Joel train with “Glass Houses,” his “new wave” album. By this time Billy was an established quantity, a man with tracks on AM and FM, but that was not the case previously, especially nationally. You see […]

1 All my old records are new again. I’m not sure the younger generations have the same relationship, the same experience with music. First and foremost they’re multitasking, doing other stuff while listening, but also they have so many other ways to interact with artists, whereas we only had the music. Sure, there were some […]