Readers might remember my blog about The Sand Band, who sent me a “theme” package containing their CD and a whole lotta itty bitty gritty grains of beachy wonderfulness, which got all over and into everything in my office

As the editor of this magazine I routinely attend a variety of music industry events, including conferences, seminars, showcases, etc. Probably the most entertaining, enlightening evening I’ve spent in a while was at a recent “Closed Session with David Coury”

In the course of the band’s 3-hour plus show at The Forum in Los Angeles recently, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong announced to the crowd that he wanted one among them to climb onstage and play guitar on “Jesus Of Suburbia.”

Recently a band sent me a package containing sand.

I’ve been amazed at the preconceptions and misconceptions about how artists get a review in Music Connection…

A while back I was talking to a representative from a major music publisher and he told me he had contacted a company client (a classic rock artist) to tell him about a request for one of his well-known songs.

See, once upon a time, clubs were filled with tables & chairs. That’s right. Row upon row…