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RIP Gregory Isaacs, The Cool Ruler

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Gregory Isaacs 1951-2010

One of the most difficult aspects of being a recording artist is that you must compete with all the music previously created – it’s all still here. How can you update an existing form? In some ways, it is harder to come second, and to try to improve or change things […]

Fan Interaction with a Frying Pan

Freddy “Freddy Sez” Schuman has died. He was a friend of mine from Yankee Stadium and the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where I would often run into him on the street and share a few words about the team. Obviously, I banged his trademark frying pan sign at the park many times, and once […]

Non-paying Lupe Fiasco Fans to Protest Atlantic Records on 10/15

"Lasers" is in limbo (Atlantic Records)

The Village Voice interviewed the teenage leader of a grassroots campaign to get Atlantic Records to release the new Lupe Fiasco album (right), who is organizing a protest in front of the label’s headquarters on October 15. It’s a rare opportunity to see the forces of internet piracy […]

Advice from God (aka Umpire Doug Harvey)

Doug Harvey in action

Umpire Doug Harvey was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame yesterday, after a long career making calls of ball or strike, out or safe and whether to keep playing in rain (maybe even darkness). His speech showed the minimal and firm style of communication that enabled him to only […]

Give Me One Reason by Lee Ritenour featuring Joe Bonamassa

Lee puts it back together by the end of the cd!

Has anybody heard 6 String Theory, the new Lee Ritenour album (at right)? One of my colleagues on the project, Dave Einstein of the Concord Music Group, is utterly convinced that the track here, “Give Me One Reason,” featuring Joe Bonamassa, is an […]

Earbender

RIP Gregory Isaacs, The Cool Ruler

Fan Interaction with a Frying Pan

Non-paying Lupe Fiasco Fans to Protest Atlantic Records on 10/15

Advice from God (aka Umpire Doug Harvey)

Give Me One Reason by Lee Ritenour featuring Joe Bonamassa

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