Archive for 2005/12


Urge

Lyor Cohen: "With Urge, MTV Networks is again at the forefront of revolutionising where and how our combined audiences across the globe can connect with the music and the artists they love." MTV, Microsoft promise the ‘iTunes-killer’ This is the kind of mind-numbing ignorance that got the business into the snit it’s in to BEGIN […]

From inside the label halls…

So disappointing what a sham this Grammy process is.  As a kid, I believed the Grammy to be the highest honor!  When I learned a while back what the real deal was, it was like finding out that there wasn’t a Santa.  Now, I figure every industry does this, in one way or the other?  […]

More Grammy-Working

Mike Rittberg (Warner Brothers Records): Just so you know and NARAS will confirm – those recording with record company employee’s don’t count. They changed the policy about 2 years ago. So what you described wouldn’t happen I reprint the above e-mail because the one thing I need to protect is my credibility. I wish the […]

How The Grammys Work

Bob: Yes, these nominations are embarrassing. It’s quite eveident NARAS is a bunch of OLD, WHITE MEN. But let me alert you to something else. The Grammys are manipulated by the majors just like everything else. When I worked in the industry, our label was surprised every year at how few nominations our artists received […]