Archive for 2008/07


Samsung

1 Felice’s Samsung has the best picture I’ve ever seen on an LCD TV. For those keeping score at home, its model number is: LN46A650 (although Felice paid $65 less). When you fire up an HD channel you swear you could reach your hand right into the scene. There’s a visceal reality that titillates one’s […]

Nickelback/Live Nation

Now this deal makes sense. This is how I remind you that the major labels are too hip for the room. None of them wanted to sign Nickelback, they had to go to an indie. You could hear the greatness on their RoadRunner debut, all that was absent was the hit single. Which came on […]

Power Top Ten-Midyear Edition

1. Irving Azoff In recorded music sales content is not king, distribution is king. Irving controls superstar sales at Wal-Mart, the number one physical distributor. And, as he’s been quoted ad infinitum, the digital sales at the iTunes Store for the Eagles suck, don’t equal those from one live performance, so what difference does online […]

The End Of The Innocence

They said life would never be the same after 9/11. But somehow it was. Sure, the government kept telling us to be aware of terrorist attacks, but despite some anthrax being mailed around in the weeks after the Twin Towers fell, nothing ever happened. Sure, we ultimately had to take off our shoes as we […]