We asked Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller to guest edit magnetmagazine.com this week, and he pawned it off on a bunch of his famous friends: other musicians, actors, writers and comedians. Well played, Rhett. But you can’t hide behind a self-titled solo album. Rhett Miller (Shout! Factory), a Beatlesque beauty featuring Jon Brion, is out this week.
Danny Goldberg is a luminary and an icon within the music industry. His credits are too numerous to list. His recent autobiography, Bumping Into Geniuses, is a must read. I am lucky enough to have him managing my career. Danny Goldberg recommends:
The Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam
Anyone interested in politics should read or re-read David Halberstam‘s The Best And The Brightest from 1972, about how really smart people self-destructively expanded the Vietnam War. The parallels to really smart people in power today are frightening.
