Live Nation’s problem is not Outbox, but its crushing debt.  If Live Nation dies, it will be because it couldn’t find a way to be profitable, not because a competitor ate its lunch. Outbox is a white label solution.  Which allows venues to create their own ticketing system.  That’s a positively eighties solution, back before […]

Everybody knows you’ve got to have an iPad app. But the L.A. "Times" doesn’t have one.  That’s what happens when you focus on the bottom line instead of the future, you get left behind. Oh, there’s a $1.99 iPhone app, but that’s like watching on a tiny cathode ray TV when there’s HD.  Something that […]

The story of the week is not Amos Lee entering the chart with an anemic sales total of 40,000.  That’s like seeing your name in print in the newspaper.  All your homies call you up thrilled and the following day you’re forgotten.  Ditto with Cake.  These are not bad stories, the fans come out and […]

This is not a music story. We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969.  Since the conglomerates bought the indie labels.  Because there was so much damn MONEY IN MUSIC! But no more.  Whose fault is that? Don’t blame the consumer.  Don’t say Apple wouldn’t be successful if people stole their products.  At least people […]