Happy Holidays boys and girls! This is one of those good news-bad news columns. I’m spending a lot of time on the road doing free seminars and helping...

My SG column turns 21 today and instead of the traditional coming of age, puking in the bathroom of the club from rohypnol-induced memory lapse morning...

Happy Thanksgiving – to celebrate – give yourself a free t-shirt when you buy a copy of the book from our new superfast merchandise service Merch...

They eat their young with a side of organic tofu and valet parking...

Sorry, that’s Valley Parking...

As I said somewhat belatedly to those present...

A crazy week for sure. I cannot start dishing out information without mentioning the passing of bassist, artist and my bandmate Paul Raven. He was a charming,...

I know sometimes I can just go off on an ADD tangent – so, here is maybe some of the more important stuff that you’d look to this column to provide. But,...

Wow, great response from the Austin crew at Elysium. It was great to see such a good turn out, and thanks to John and all at the venue, and to the guys...

I came across an amazingly candid (and funny) list of annoyances from The Creepy Crawl in St Louis. I’m going to be there in a couple of weeks so I hope...

Somewhere between FUSE gallery in NYC, Hole In The Sky Black Metal Festival in Bergen Norway, (loads of nice people – guess what, they don’t JUST...

I’m out and about – NYC this week, NY Red Bulls on Saturday - closing party is Wednesday, then NORWAY. Come and say Hi. Thanks to the wonderful people at...

Thanks for all of the great comments, quotes and support on the book. For this week’s column I am reprinting some thoughts I was asked to contribute to...

Let’s stick with Hay Perro – they seem to be in the same position as many new bands so answering their questions feels...

Politicians are the new Rock Stars…….Hillary Clinton just turned down the millions she can get from the party so that she can raise the even more millions...

This week I’m excited. I just signed a distribution deal with IPG here in Chicago, I’m heading to NYC in early August for another gallery show, interviews,...

Thank you for all of the comments over the last couple of months. One keeps coming up that I thought I should mention. It’s this one...

“Great column,...

There’s one great plastic, fantastic reason for you to get out there, make noise, jump up and down, meet people, shag people, smile at people, listen, interact,...

I saw a post yesterday on SG at about 1:13pm. The Smashing Pumpkins’ rehearsal space was broken into and some...

You have practiced your instrument, worked out, put piercings and ink in the most (and the least) prominent places, and checked through the stills of the...

I’m going to postpone my chatter about the state of the music business for another time and focus in on our first case study. I like this case study – it’s...

STRATEGY FOR SUCCESS:
PRACTICE FOR CATASTROPHE AND YOU WILL ALWAYS TRIUMPH

Over three days at the D-22 Club in Beijing, China, I recorded over...