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Jun 6, 20166 min read
SAYING IT IN A SONG
By Hans Ebert The news that Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris have broken up will have bookmaker Ladbrokes offering two cents on the dollar...
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May 26, 20164 min read
EMBRACING AND GIVING THANKS TO THE MIRACLE OF MUSIC
By Hans Ebert There’s no other way to put it: We’re all going to die, some before others. And as we face mortality, we start making...
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May 24, 20164 min read
TIME TO REVISIT COLDPLAY AND TAKE MUSIC “UP&UP”
By Hans Ebert Maybe “Fix You” was considered too sappy by some, maybe Chris Martin’s marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow was “too Hollywood” for...
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May 21, 20164 min read
GWEN STEFANI AND BLAKE SHELTON AND THE AGE OF THE SHTICK
By Hans Ebert It might be All About The Bass, but it’s definitely all about the hype. Funny word- hype. Once upon a Blind Faith, or that...
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May 11, 20166 min read
WHAT DO MUSIC PUBLISHING HOUSES ACTUALLY, WELL, DO?
By Hans Ebert Whoever are in these offices have worked in this lazy, meandering way for decades. They’re like hamsters going around and...
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May 9, 20167 min read
WHY THE PURPLE REIGN OF PRINCE CONTINUES
By Hans Ebert Like John Lennon and Freddy Mercury, David Bowie remains in our thoughts, because his leaving is still too raw and painful...
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May 3, 20162 min read
A message from George Carlin
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We...
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May 2, 20165 min read
AND THEN CAME LUKAS GRAHAM
By Hans Ebert There’s a track out called “7 Years” by Danish band Lukas Graham that’s been on Repeat at home and in my head for the past...
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Apr 28, 20167 min read
JUST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF LIKE PRINCE DID- AND JUST DO IT FOR EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS MOST
By Hans Ebert Okay, let’s all stop the Princeathon as we have reached Information Overload about the Purple One. Prince & Miles Davis:...
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Apr 24, 20162 min read
THAT PURPLE REIGN
By Hans Ebert It’s almost sacrilegious to say one musical icon’s passing has a more profound effect on one’s self than another, but, at...
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Apr 22, 20163 min read
RIP PRINCE: NOW, LET’S DANCE LIKE IT WAS 1999
By Hans Ebert Just like the day one heard that John Lennon had been murdered, the news that Prince has left us fills me with huge sadness...
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Apr 19, 20164 min read
THE HEALING IN THE SHARING OF MUSIC
By Hans Ebert Money isn’t the root of all evil. Often, pettiness and petty people are. And so, after a few months of being surrounded and...
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Apr 14, 20163 min read
THE MAGIC AND THE LOVE OF SHARING MUSIC
By Hans Ebert If every industry used the power of music to attract consumers, there just might be more honesty in the world that will...
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Apr 7, 20164 min read
STORYTELLERS AND WHY THE MUSIC INDUSTRY DESPERATELY NEEDS A DAMN GOOD AD AGENCY
By Hans Ebert Maybe it was listening to Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited album after all these years, and hearing his stories put to music-...
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Mar 23, 20168 min read
FORGOTTEN HEROES OF MUSIC: THE SONGWRITERS
By Hans Ebert Listening to “Work”, the new recording by Rihanna, and then hearing a brilliant Remix of Drake’s “Hotline Bling” recently...
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Mar 22, 20166 min read
THE LOSERS, CHEATERS AND SIX-GUN USERS IN LIFE AND THE MUSIC WORLD
By Hans Ebert In the Rant section of the SCMP’s Sunday Magazine, the writer mentioned being hit in the face last Friday and thrown out of...
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Mar 13, 20165 min read
THE LASTING POWER OF MUSIC BACK CATALOGUES
By Hans Ebert And now Keith Emerson is no longer with us. Was I a fan of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and their “Prog Rock”? Not in the...
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Mar 11, 20163 min read
GEORGE MARTIN AND HIS MAGICAL MYSTERY TOURS
By Hans Ebert It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry, and it too often takes a death to bring everything into perspective. When...
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Mar 5, 20167 min read
MUSIC’S STAR POWER CLUB AND WHO REALLY RUNS IT?
By Hans Ebert It was a pleasant enough cover of “Blackbird” by Dave Grohl at the Oscars, also known as the Chris Rock Show, but listening...
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Feb 23, 20166 min read
LOOKING FOR GIGS? TRY ASIA
By Hans Ebert For musicians in places like Australia, Canada, the UK, Scandinavia, and the States- especially singer-musicians- still...
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