Archive for 2010/07


Urie’s Waste Of Time

I like Jim. But it looks like he’s protecting his job, like he’s too deep in the old model to see the new. Bottom line, we’re not gonna have an ISP tax. You know why?  Because the ISPs don’t want it.  Because if they cough up some money to the music industry, then they’re gonna […]

The Death Of Billboard (& SoundScan!)

I went to lunch with an A&R man.  Fascinating experience, because they’re all hit-driven, it’s like they live in a different world from everybody e-mailing me about the Hold Steady and the National…they’ve got to put up numbers.  Quickly. And this guy was lamenting how long it took to break a record. He was talking […]

Tracks

"On The Road To Find Out"Cat Stevens They’re doing construction on the 405.  Widening it.  Which I think is a mistake.  I read a story in the "New York Times" saying that if you enlarge a highway it’ll just generate more traffic, people will live further away, figuring they can drive into town.  But you […]