Lefsetz
“Scott Borchetta never gave Taylor Swift an opportunity to purchase her masters, or the label, outright with a check in the way he ...
Read More
Taylor Swift/Scooter Braun
She should have bought the label. My inbox is filling up with today’s story about Scooter Braun’s purchase of Big Machine and Taylor ...
Read More
Peter Noone
AKA Herman of Herman’s Hermits…need I say more? Yes, that Peter’s a fabulous raconteur with great stories, he’ll have you riveted. He’s been ...
Read More
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 ...
Read More
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 ...
Read More
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 ...
Read More
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 ...
Read More
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. ...
Read More
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 ...
Read More
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 ...
Read More