A couple of weeks ago, I posted about how Jefferson Starship’s then-young guitarist Craig Chaquico had traded me a tour jacket for an...

I went to work for Sire because I was crazy about the alternative rock the label was famous for— from the Ramones, Richard Hell, the Dead...

I’m embarrassed. I can’t remember how I first met U2. I know I was in London and it was before they had any music out. I’m guessing I met...

Sandy Pearlman and I used to drive into Manhattan from Stony Brook for every Exploding Plastic Inevitable Velvet Underground show in 1966...

Anyone who has noticed my career in the music business probably associates me with alternative music. I started the first punk-oriented...

I’ve been wanting to say a few words on the passing this week of the greatest record executive I ever met, the legendary Mo Ostin. He was...

-by Denise Sullivan There was a time when rock ’n’ roll regularly served to inspire and act as a redemptive force in a world torn...

Wicked Game, Part II -by Michael Goldberg Every ten years or so, rock & roll reinvents itself. In the mid-’60s, the British Invasion with...

-by Michael Goldberg Jimmy Wilsey was a little known guitarist whose greatest success was in the shadows of Chris Isaak. So why would I...

I remember telling my boss on the day that I retired from the music business that one thing I was really happy about was that I'd never...

by Noah Sunday Thoughts: In the music business, there were, for years, plenty of morons who, among other things, spent way too much...

-by Ian Brennan In theory, international music makers should be thrilled about the Grammys being handed out this Sunday. Instead of one...

At What Point Are All Russians Complicit? This afternoon, it was widely reported and confirmed that the 51 year old deputy commander of...

I have avoided the Howie Klein wikipedia page for years because it had so many errors when I looked at it that it made me cringe. But I...

-by Denise Sullivan By the time you read this, it will be 20 months since some of us have seen the inside of a nightclub or other live...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has two elections in mind-- a reelection bid in 2022, probably against a big name, well-financed Democrat,...

After being eliminated from the 2014 season of The Voice, there was always the chance that no one would ever hear of Morgan Wallen again....

Trump, the most lawless president ever, has no respect for private property, something he never stops demonstrating by illegally...