The 2011 end of the year numbers are in! Was 2011 the year when the music industry went back to black? Well that depends on what numbers you compare and who you ask. The Nielson-Billboard 2011 Music Industry Report indicates that music sales for 2011 are up for the first time in seven years (thanks [...]

And the Grammy goes to. . .Esparanza Spalding. Like twenty-six million of you, I spent this past Sunday watching The GRAMMYS.  Trying in earnest to remember that this was an awards show—even though only 10 out of the 109 awards were handed out on air—I paid close attention to the coveted New Artist category, in [...]