Archive for 2008/05


The Ticket Comes With The Album

Back when concert tickets and albums were almost the same price, I’d buy the new record before I went to the show. That’s what would happen. The band would go on the road and play most of the new album and a few old hits. If you didn’t know the new material, […]

The Window

If the Internet is so damn fast, why is exploitation so SLOW!In other words, if the Beatles can release three albums in one year, why does Mariah Carey have to wait three years to release ANOTHER!One can argue that Mariah’s new record, E=MC2, is already over. As is Madonna’s "Hard Candy". If movies […]

Marketing Yourself

What if you released your album and no one cared. Worse, imagine that no one even knew it was out.With the plethora of information floating in bits and bytes and dead trees throughout the universe, the odds of your release making an impact on the target audience are close to nil. If you’re […]

Gladwell On Spaghetti Sauce

I need you to watch Malcolm Gladwell’s TED talk "What We Can Learn From Spaghetti Sauce". I’ll post the link at the bottom. It’s an almost eighteen minute video. You won’t understand where he’s going until at least half way through. But, as he reaches his climax, you’ll identify with the […]