Kudos & Flowers

I never liked MySpace even when everyone said you HAD to have a MySpace page.  It was ugly.  After they let users personalize their page, it...

Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal Performing Seventh Avenue Last night's show, The Bottom Line Presents:  New York On My Mind, was move...

Some people just don't age (clarify:  they do not become old thinkers, rest on laurels or washed up), whether musically, physically or m...

Kenny Chesney wins. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy On Friday mornings I tune into the three ...

I'm almost afraid to get the latest from Bob Lefsetz.  It seems like everyday someone new has gone to rock and roll heaven.    I wrote a...

There were many rituals, rites of passage, events whatever you want to call them at my high school.  One of these was ring day. It occurred ...

Universal Music Group Distribution President, Jim Urie is back on the trail to enlist his mailing list to support the passing of bill S. 968...

The Drifters was a prophetic moniker.  The band was a revolving door of personnel, but there was one person who had the rights to the Drift...

I remember reading the profile on Gil Scott-Heron in the New Yorker about a year ago and thinking it's amazing he's still alive.  ...

As Techdirt points out, this is a few weeks old, but still worth mentioning. In this litigious society we live in, it seems that exes are t...

Lady Gaga's album Born This Way is available on Amazon for a $.99 download today.  The only way to secure the download is to load it on...

Inspiration comes in many places.  Realizing that Grand Central Station no longer had baggage lockers, author Wendy Corsi Staub thought abo...

This exclaimed Rosanne Cash after finding some publicity photos of herself at age 20, 21.  At the time she was promoting her first record wh...

According to the NY Times ,  the major record labels won a $105 million settlement against the file-sharing network LimeWire .  The article...

  Carter, as everyone seemed to call him, was one of those rare A&R guys whom really knew his stuff. Talk about putting in your hours.  ...

The life of a musician can be solitary.  If you're in a band, you can collaborate with band members, you're on the road with them, b...

The April 27th episode of American Idol featured the songs of Carole King.  Billboard reports that on the heels of that show, her records ...

According to Bloomberg , BMG Rights Management and Universal Music Group might make a joint bid for Warner Music AND EMI.  There are two oth...

Albums are for fans, singles are for newbies. Don't make an album expecting to reach a new audience.  If you want to reach a new audie...