The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to allow ourselves to be constantly blown from one trend to the next.

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.

I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It’s simple and it’s cheap.

If you’re going to write an anthem for an old man who’s up at political bat for the last time, give him a decent song. Send him off with something that creates some chills or...

Thomas Dolby is part mad scientist, part nature boy, and entirely moved by the power of music.

Rock stars should be able to tune their own guitars, apply their own eyeliner, and pick out their own leather pants.

The same basic tools we’ve used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we’re telling our stories 140 characters at...

When I started Amos Content Group in 2009, I made a simple bet: our handmade, contextual, and authentic content will stand out in an increasingly information-saturated world.

Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren’t any shortcuts. You can’t write an algorithm for it. You can’t predict it. You can’t...

I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air.

In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face blue, wore crimson lipstick, and strung on some tight silver latex pants.

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while...

The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers.

There was a time when a musician was forced to act in a video. Seeing a singer step too far outside of his comfort zone to pour all of his high-school-drama angst into a poorly...

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.

In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids’ yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else’s spotlight.

Leave a movie audience inspired, and they will want to ingrain that movie into their lives with the toys, branded food products, soundtracks, and clothing they buy.

Fresh content doesn’t exist to game the SEO system. It’s the words, images, and stories that truly engage us, make us want to share with others, and creates a bond between us and a brand.

The Dolls were the forefathers of glam. You never knew if they were going to kiss you or punch you. More than likely, they’d do both.

Throughout the ’50s, tons of unknown locals came through Sun to record their demos. Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis all made their first recordings at the former Memphis Recording Service.

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

Brands’ products should be the manifestation of a company’s values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company’s narrative.

Year after year, we see a new crop of musicians who do their best to look tough in lipstick and makeup. Maybe it’s a cry for help, an admission of their strong feminine side, or...

I take my kids to a farmers’ market each Sunday to buy organic produce.

Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry...

In the ’60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.

We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don’t know what we’re...

At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes.

Early 1900s Hollywood was full of farmers battling to hold onto their land against a new influx of filmmakers who dug Hollywood’s reliable weather and diverse landscape.

Social media is social. We’re looking to touch one heart at a time. With one great story at a time.

If I were a rock star, I’d design my own clothes. I’d do it because that’s the mark of a true rock star.

‘Morsel’ is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an instantaneous physiological reaction. The mouth waters. The lips purse.

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It’s full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.

There is a difference between a hand out and a help up. Brothers need to help brothers. They don’t do it enough.

While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it’s one of my biggest personal achievements – on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company.

Brands frantically tried to compete for users’ fragmented attention, spraying content on every platform in a 24/7 race to stay relevant.

Every major summer blockbuster that is released is essentially a product line being launched across multiple verticals. However, the centerpiece of the product launch is a big, beautiful story whose job is to entertain.

Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems.

In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there’s a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there.

My stroller of choice is the Graco Classic. It’s the ’70s Buick of strollers, bulky with a complete absence of style. There are no good lines on the Graco. Yes, it has cup holders, like...

Music and philanthropy have a long, benevolent relationship with one another. Record bins are rife with charity singles, and concert history is filled with benefit shows for every imaginable cause. Musicians like to give back.

There’s a reason for Art Garfunkel’s oddly shaped hair. It hides a very big brain.

Chrissie Hynde is the blueprint for any teenage pop star wannabe looking to have some real cred.

Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe not every song, but writers from Benny Goodman to Lieber & Stoller to...

Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.