Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Making Rumours

What if I told you this book was full of tech talk, read like a manual and was filled with arcane details…would you read it anyway? I DID! Ken Caillat was smart enough to get a cowriter, unlike Carole King. And he’s not afraid to sling shit, some of the stories about Lindsey Buckingham will [...]

String Cheese/Ticketmaster

A Band Battles Ticketmaster on Sales Fees Methinks the plethora of people e-mailing me this story didn’t get past the headline. This is a false fight. This is not about Ticketmaster fees so much as allowing the band to sell more tickets by itself, surcharge free. Do you understand that? Let me explain… Bands have [...]

New York Stories

TAXICAB CONFESSIONS He lied to the government to get free health care and then his wife had an affair. People in New York are different. Everybody in Los Angeles is trying to be famous, or luxuriating in the outdoor lifestyle. In NYC, they’re either on the track to get rich or they’re getting by. Life [...]

Counting Crows/BitTorrent

It’s a publicity stunt. And based on my inbox, it worked. Hi, I’ve been on a plane all day, flying to NYC for Internet Week and then on to Philadelphia for the Non-Commvention. And the gentleman sitting next to me in business development for Amgen waxed rhapsodic that if only there was one site with [...]