"Apple overtakes Nokia as world’s largest vendor of mobile handsets by revenue" I’d say worst to first, but more accurately it’s nowhere to triumph.  Could this happen in the record industry? Not only can it, it will. There’s an ecosystem of major labels and radio and physical distribution based on ripping off acts.  Will this […]

What I hate about America is marketers insist on overdoing it.  They all believe we live where there’s no cable TV, no magazines and no Internet and therefore they must plaster their product across all media just in case we go to the metropolis to get smokes or beer and stumble upon media accidentally and […]

They paid the lawyer $5.94 million. Oh, he’s got some fancy title, "Executive Vice President and General Counsel", so his mother will be impressed and he won’t look like a loser at school reunions, but make no mistake, he’s the lawyer. Paying Michael Rowles this kind of money is like paying Don Passman more than […]

Once upon a time you saw the Beatles on "Ed Sullivan" and wanted to be a musician.  Now you read the "Wall Street Journal" and want to work for Live Nation. Kind of like Nathan Hubbard.  Once upon a time Mr. Hubbard was one half of the musical act Rockwell Church.  Despite having diehard fans, […]