America at the Ace
It was joyous! The seventies get a bad rap. The era is seen as one of excess, as opposed to the progenitor era of the sixties, where the Beatles caused…
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Bob Lefsetz
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Andy Somers
And now the seller’s view. Andy Somers is an agent at APA, he works with acts as disparate as Social Distortion and Brian Wilson. Hear what it’s like to find…
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The Rolling Thunder Revue
This movie is made for tomorrow not today. Kind of like “Don’t Look Back,” a footnote when it was released, a legendary artifact from the past today, a rite for…
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Karla Bonoff
Quite possibly the best songwriter of her generation, Karla’s most famous for the Linda Ronstadt covers, but her own versions have more emotion and both resonate and sting, depending upon…
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The Universal Fire
“The Day the Music Burned”: https://nyti.ms/2F3ZpZq Artists should own their masters. Executives come and go, the tracks they’re in custody of are forever. In other words, acts care more about…
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Counting Sales (& Bundles!)
Ben Sisario: https://nyti.ms/2F2k0gV Counting CD and track sales is like toting up the number of feature phone purchases. We live in an era of streaming and smartphones, why does the…
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Dean Torrence
Yes, that Dean, of Jan and Dean. Dedicated readers will know they were my first faves, before the Beach Boys. I played their album “Command Performance” until it turned grey…
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Peter Noone At The Saban
This could have been lousy, but instead it was JOYOUS! You know, ancient rocker listlessly sings his hits, would rather be anywhere but here and you can feel it, going…
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Linda Perry
I saw Linda Perry speak at Canadian Music Week. They have these conferences all over the world, usually supported by the government, and there are two halves, a festival for…
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Tedeschi Trucks At The Orpheum
How can you be so good and nobody knows? Used to be about the hit single. Hell, Tom Petty even wrote a song about it. You were outside the mainstream,…
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