Earwitness
SHOOT’s Earwitness author Lyle Greenfield has departed from the regular format of the column this month to bring you a special panel discussion with six music production executives. Organizing and moderating the panel, Lyle posed the following questions:
- In this time of ...
Sunny, warm, dry in NYC as I write this. Summer solstice a few days away—you feel what I’m hearing? You hear what I’m feeling? A certain kind of music that attaches itself to your hips, makes everybody a bobble-head. Feet off the ground. Eyes closed. Arms floating. That’s right. Nice....
I’ve had the title of this column in my head for over a month. Probably came out of all the “transgender” news, tweets and bathroom chatter. I dunno..just popped out.
What would that mean in the realm of popular music—“transgenre”?
And I thought, it’s when an artist we’ve...
4…3…2…1…Skip ad. Click. Gone!
I have questions. Normally, I have answers—I’m your "Earwitness," for pop’s sake! But I have questions.
Why would you NOT “Skip ad”? You wanted to hear/watch Charlie Puth’s sweet...
As Taylor Swift famously clarified, a hater’s gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. So let’s talk about the 2016 Grammy Awards with Valentine-love in our hearts, and just a pinch of WTF!? to keep it real!
But first, a commercial break. In the form of...
I don’t pretend to be versed in the complete body of musical and visual works of David Bowie, the seminal artist whom the Universe lost to cancer a few days ago. Yet, like millions of my fellow humans, I was stunned and saddend by the news of his death. When...
Peace On Earth. No, seriously…
As you well know, normally at this time of year I can be found hanging out in the mall, mouthing the words to Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmas Time”, or Wham’s “Last Christmas,” unashamed of how ridiculous I must look, a grown man in his ugly sweater,...
There’s been a great deal of speculation about who will perform at the halftime show for Super Bowl 50 (or, as we say in ancient Rome, Super Bowl L). I mean, the Big Five-O…gotta be BIGGERBETTER than ever, right? Billboard reported in September that...
Minneapolis-based ad man Pat Fallon, whose upstart firm once led campaigns for luxury automakers BMW and Porsche, has died at age 70, his company said.
Fallon, a member of the Advertising Hall of Fame, died Friday with his family at his side,...
The world is getting harder. My psyche, fried. Nightmares accelerating. Politics like wrecks on the Freeway every quarter mile. Another suicide bombing/shooting? In a school/mosque? An outbreak of what? Where is that country? But what about Timmy’s...