1. Make A Video Unless it’s shot on a hand-held digicam from Best Buy, your total budget is under $5,000 and it appears on your Website only. 2. Never Appear On VH1 Unless you want to be like one of those losers commenting on "Best Week Ever" who still live with their parents and have […]

By perching themselves at the top of the pyramid, not interested in albums with initial sales potential less than gold (500,000), the major labels are insuring their own marginalization.  For it’s a long tail world, and he who does not participate in it is doomed. An aggregator must give something to its stable of clients, […]

Yup, this Sunday night, at 9 PM, on 97.1 Free FM here in Los Angeles.  Be there or be square (you can listen in on the Net by going to http://www.971freefm.com and clicking on "Live"). Now I got too much e-mail to respond on my trip to Mammoth re Lisa’s use of the racial epithet […]

The modern music business was built by Mo Ostin, and don’t EVER forget it! Not that it was only Mo.  It was completely different from today.  There was a whole team of dedicated staffers.  Who didn’t have to worry about job security.  Who were handsomely paid, even if they didn’t wear the title "President".  Mo […]