Jim Griffin: I was shocked to read Gary Stiffelman’s comments because a professional like Gary should know better than to sling the falsehoods he so casually tossed in his comments. Let’s clear up these mistakes lest they spread: 1. No one proposes network licensing without sampling the network to help split the money proportionally. It’s […]

Gary Stiffelman: Sometimes it seems like you are on Apple’s payroll. Every idea other than iPod is regularly condemned by you, whether its a company deciding to reject Apple’s monopolistic pricing and rigid distribution model, or efforts to explore new models that in any way differ from the iTunes model. I love how you propounded […]

In  retrospect, hiring Rick Rubin to run Big Red was a massive mistake. Yup, Rick’s running it.  From a distance.  He doesn’t go to the office, he doesn’t communicate, he dropped a ton of acts, there’s a wild cabal running the label and the worker bees have no clue what’s going on. How did this […]

Are you doing it to get rich, or because you have an innate desire to express yourself? Hello, let me introduce you to 2007, wherein the powers-that-be tell us the music business has been wrecked by piracy but those with their ear to the ground know it’s much more complicated. The biggest problem facing artists […]