1. Selling recorded music is not the only way to make money in music.  Ark Factory came up with a new way, ripping off the parents of little kids.  Let this be a lesson to you, rather than complain that the old model is dead, innovate. 2. Old media loves to piggyback on new media.  […]

Who told the "New York Post" the Rihanna tour was a stiff? Slow going for Rihanna tour I just got off the phone with Irving Azoff.  Doesn’t matter what you think of him, his reputation for veracity, because as Sting so famously sang, it’s a brand new day.  Irving’s chairman of a public company.  He […]

Dear Bob, I have been following you for some time now. I agree with you most of the time. Bravo! But, I must say, your latest piece about my dear friend Jerry Wientraub is right on the money. He and I go back 54 years. We reminisced and kibitzed last week at lunch. I was […]

It was a namedropper’s paradise. That’s what George or Barbara Bush said at the end of the movie, I can’t remember which, I’m gonna have to see it again! You see Jerry arranged this affair for the President… And I had no idea last night’s affair would be such a Hollywood clusterfuck.  Really.  I went […]