Re-Ultra Music Festival hi, interesting article on ultra. in addition to them selling 170,000 tix there was also another dance event on the saturday that sold 25,000 tix. a few years ago i dj’ed electric daisy in l.a. 80,000 people, and it was amazing. the biggest festival in the states. the next day i was […]

I’ve been threatening to cancel the L.A. "Times", but as a reader e-mailed me, the problem is you can only do it once. It’s so thin, and compared to the "New York Times" and "Wall Street Journal" it’s a narrow picture of the world absent so much as to make one wonder if readers end […]

Tiësto: Electronic Music’s Superstar For those unable or unwilling to click through, it’s Jim Fusilli’s story about the Ultra Music Festival last weekend in Miami.  150,000 tickets were sold and the headliner, Tiesto, makes north of $20 million per year. And you didn’t see coverage of this on television, or in most mainstream media outlets.  […]

James told me he was reading “You Never Give Me Your Money”, the story of the Beatles and their business.  And when he was done telling tales, with a gleam in his eye that made me want to read the book, I asked him why no one ever employed the Beatle formula, good singing with […]