The first time I met Chaka Khan was just before Christmas, 1978. She was 25 and I was 5 years older. She was just starting a new solo...

I hitchhiked to Miami— or tried to— when I was in high school, 14-15 years old. I was apprehended by the state highway police on the New...

The first half of this 1977 interview with former Clash bass player Paul Simonon— who will be 67 next month— ran Wednesday evening. At...

The Clash were never on any label I worked for. But they were my favorite band for a long time. I expect to write a lot about them in the...

A few months ago, I was talking with a Senate candidate about AC/DC, his favorite band. It kind of blows my mind to imagine someone in...

After I couldn’t stand one more moment watching CBS Records butcher the bands on my label, 415 Records, I took a job as general manager...

When I was growing up, this was the Devil's Music: "You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain Too much love drives a man insane" A few...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about how Jefferson Starship’s then-young guitarist Craig Chaquico had traded me a tour jacket for an...

I went to work for Sire because I was crazy about the alternative rock the label was famous for— from the Ramones, Richard Hell, the Dead...

I’m embarrassed. I can’t remember how I first met U2. I know I was in London and it was before they had any music out. I’m guessing I met...

Sandy Pearlman and I used to drive into Manhattan from Stony Brook for every Exploding Plastic Inevitable Velvet Underground show in 1966...

Anyone who has noticed my career in the music business probably associates me with alternative music. I started the first punk-oriented...

I’ve been wanting to say a few words on the passing this week of the greatest record executive I ever met, the legendary Mo Ostin. He was...

-by Denise Sullivan There was a time when rock ’n’ roll regularly served to inspire and act as a redemptive force in a world torn...

Wicked Game, Part II -by Michael Goldberg Every ten years or so, rock & roll reinvents itself. In the mid-’60s, the British Invasion with...

-by Michael Goldberg Jimmy Wilsey was a little known guitarist whose greatest success was in the shadows of Chris Isaak. So why would I...

I remember telling my boss on the day that I retired from the music business that one thing I was really happy about was that I'd never...

by Noah Sunday Thoughts: In the music business, there were, for years, plenty of morons who, among other things, spent way too much...

-by Ian Brennan In theory, international music makers should be thrilled about the Grammys being handed out this Sunday. Instead of one...

At What Point Are All Russians Complicit? This afternoon, it was widely reported and confirmed that the 51 year old deputy commander of...