The world is desperately in need of whatever you might want to call it- a reboot, a makeover, a Renaissance period, newness, chutney, a Bento box etc. It’s needed because one day rolls into the next, and it’s one long Groundhog Day with a blanket of boredom, fear, anger and depression covering the world. Wherefore art thou, Creativity, in all your many forms? And, to some, it’s not what you might have done and who you met decades ago and still living on the crumbs of fading m

By Hans Ebert As usual, when everything else fails in the music industry, those in the business of trying to prop it up and seeing where the money might be, look to the China market. It reminds me of the early 2000s when some of us at EMI Music’s Regional Office perpetuated the mantra that China was POTENTIALLY the largest music market in the world. Say it long enough and passionately enough at worldwide music conferences and everyone starts believing in it and want a slice o

by Hans Ebert It’s not unlike Bob Dylan singing about being Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again. Except, more and more, we seem to be stuck with, well, Stupid. The less we travel, those frequent travel points are reduced to Barney Rubble whereas the art of conversation dries up so badly that one can actually hear the sound of one hand clapping. Why? Because you’re with the same old people and going around and around talking in circles. We’re all grounded and l