From: Jon ColeSubject: Street Teams I signed up for the Atlantic Records street team a couple of years ago when the Format were shuffled over from Elektra because that’s what you do when you’re a kid who loves a band. I didn’t realize street teaming was about whoring yourself out to get a low-level job […]

DRM might be the story in the mainstream press, but what sticks in my craw is the hit to Steve Jobs’ credibility. What we hate about politicians is fiscal interests, i.e. donors, hold sway over elected officials’ opinions.  There is no Mr. Smith in Washington, speaking from the heart, always doing the right thing.  Today […]

Why the fuck should they cost more? One small step for mankind, and one half-step back.  It would be like Neil Armstrong getting to the moon and not getting out.  I mean if you’re going to go all that way… This is the kind of bullshit pussyfooting that got the labels into hot water to […]

Famous for being in the right place at the right time, as of June 1st, Jimmy Iovine will no longer be employed by Universal Music.  He is ankling the firm to return to New York City to run LimeWire, the P2P service based on the Gnutella protocol. Two factors seem to have triggered Jimmy’s departure, […]