I guess one positive is that we’re starting to focus part of the biz on vinyl. Sales are way up there, and we’re trying to get in things that not every big box retailer will have (although Best Buy’s decision to carry vinyl at all still pisses me off).

Thanks for coming to the Fetus when you’re in Minneapolis. We love you! Hoping for 40 more years…

for your consideration.

Meanwhile, the Creed reunion tour is ready to roll!

Luckily, I’ve almost always worked a “straight” job while writing about music, taking freelance and various staff positions through the years as part-time gigs behind long tenures in restaurant management, computer systems and such. Even now, with the economy melting down and people being laid off in droves, I’m thankful to be in an industry where sales are booming (for now) and a regular paycheck is still coming.

Still, I wonder, like Michaelangelo, where music criticism is going in the future. Perhaps the music blog phenom with its instant “experts” will shake out as people drift into other areas of opinion, maybe the music biz itself will finally implode and music will largely return to the streets and clubs where it began. I’ve been doing this a damn long time, and even I don’t know what’s going on (and my predictions have been fairly accurate for decades up ’til now).

One thing I know for sure…just as there are people who have no choice about playing music (they have to do it), there are those of us who will be around to write about it. I’m just not sure where we’ll be writing….