The problem with this book is that Jennifer Trynin is just as big a weasel as the businesspeople she writes about. The problem with the book business is it’s just as clueless as to what the public wants as the music business.  A book by a fortysomething never made it rock chick whose heyday was […]

The window is closing on satellite radio. Its obit, and it won’t go completely out of business, just like there’s still a market for vinyl records, will read "Killed By The iPod". How did they screw up so bad? Sirius delaying its introduction until it got the kinks out of its proprietary chips. XM using […]

I just found out there’s a Bruce Hornsby boxed set.  Oh, you might not care, but that’s exactly the point. Been reading Lee Gomes in the "Wall Street Journal"?  Refuting "The Long Tail"?  He had some interesting statistics last week It May Be a Long Time Before the Long Tail Is Wagging the Web  but […]

DON’T TAKE ME ALIVE I’m a bookkeeper’s sonI don’t want to shoot no oneWell I crossed my old man back in OregonDon’t take me alive I drove cross-country with six cassettes purchased at Odyssey Music in Salt Lake City. Oh, I had thirty one other tapes, but they’d been played to death. I needed new […]