In the last month, I’ve participated in two conversations about how difficult it is to find and maintain an audience: one with a bookstore o...

When I started actively looking at moving, I stopped at Southeast Community Technical College to get a feel for the possibilities (for me) ...

This is a fun story, but even more fun is the British use of language. The only place you’re likely to hear the words “tannoy system” or “...

The Neumann KM184 is one of my all-time favorite microphones and, at $1,000/each, it's a microphone that I would gladly accept a cheape...

Some friends are starting up an old guys’ R&R band and they need a bass player. They aren’t going to ask me because, “You don’t want to ...

Americans are, almost by definition, people who distain learning from the past. We generally despise academics and intellectuals and poli...

Three years ago, last month, I left After a dozen years standing in one place I walked away, alone At the time, it felt like dying I...

When I was a kid, I worked a good part of two summers on a farm to avoid having to live in a squalid Army barrack with my family while my fa...

Lots of people are selling their insights into “the music industry” these days and, mostly, that’s because making an actual living in what’s...