HITS HIGH 5: LOW AND OUTSIDE

The seventh inning stretch in the Astros game arrived just as we were realized we don’t have any peanuts, Cracker Jack of a HITS High 5. Faster than Jose Altuve, we assembled one.

We present an excerpt from our History of the Music Biz: Rainmakers II on Sylvia Rhone, who will receive the City of Hope’s 2019 Spirit of Life Award on 10/10.

Our potato salad munching Grammy prognosticators take a look at the Record of the Year category.

Classic rock remains vital in the streaming era. Just look at The Beatles and Queen.

Remember when the car radio only had an AM dial and the only station everyone listened to was KHJ? Quentin Tarantino does, as evidenced by his Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood. He talked about music at the Grammy Museum’s Clive Davis Theater with the lead singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders, Mark Lindsay.

Billie Eilish’s when we all fall asleep, where do we go? enjoyed a nice 24% sales bump in the week following her appearance on the season premiere of SNL.