As a consultant, I constantly run into two types of artists, those who consider themselves to be geniuses at their craft, but have very little talent, and those who have amazing talent, but do not consider themselves to be geniuses. I guess there is actually a third type and that is the artist that falls …
Tens of thousands of people will gather this weekend for the Austin City Limits Festival, a two-week music festival about a mile from downtown Austin. “It’s gonna be the safest part of the city to be in during both weekends, just because of the sheer number of officers that will be present,” said Brian Manley, …
When Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released their first album in 1976, few could have imagined they would become one of America’s biggest touring bands. They were a scrappy, gritty garage band – initially lumped in with the punk and New Wave scenes. But Petty, the son of a Florida insurance man, had an uncanny …
The legacy of the Vietnam war still shapes America even if many are too young to remember it. The general consensus now says that Lyndon B. Johnson was lying to us about the war. Johnson served as president after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 (the controversy continues to this day of actually who …
A few weeks ago, a New York federal judge ruled that Hip-Hop Artist Drake was protected by copyright’s fair use doctrine when he sampled a spoken-word jazz track on his 2013 song “Pound Cake,” saying the artist had transformed the purpose of the clip. Drake used 35 seconds of Jimmy Smith’s 1982 “Jimmy Smith Rap” …