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  1. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    Trane Time: John Coltrane at 100 (opens the original)

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    Many managers have told my team(s) and me to “get out there and innovate!” Only one in my four decades in the music industry took a different view. He saw “intentional innovation” as performative nonsense. “Meaningful work”, he said, “is recognizing innovation as the novel residue resulting from focused, diligent effort.”His tenure in the music industry was short. That kind of talk irritated label heads.John Coltrane, who’d celebrate a hundred laps around the sun on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, wa

  2. Issue · Sep 7, 2026

    My Mother: Music Marketing Maven (opens the original)

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    Rest in Peace, Carol Schwartz, March 1943-August 2026<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="301" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EVAt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic

  3. Issue · Jul 10, 2026

    Crate Expectations (opens the original)

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    The Analog KidRush released Signals as I began my sophomore year of high school, and the opening track “Subdivisions” arrived like a letter with my name handwritten on it. For the first time ever, I felt seen. Understood. By a total stranger.I was living in the Connecticut suburbs, awkward and unathletic, a long way from the popular crowd. Words failed whenever I tried to use them, and I had NO idea what to say at a party, though my odds of getting invited to one were about .875% (that's 7/8, gi

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