"People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I’m worth it." Madonna on Lady Gaga, ‘W.E.,’ Her New Album It’s not the eighties anymore. But don’t tell that to an ultra-rich woman living in a London inhabited by […]

Spotify link – Electric Landlady "we’ve grown accustomed to treating ‘the music industry’ as synonymous with a handful of large recording companies."Why We Shouldn’t Worry About The (Alleged) Decline Of The Music Industry That’s from Timothy B. Lee’s report about Mike Masnick’s Midem presentation: The Sky Is Rising: The Entertainment Industry Is Large & Growing… […]

1. Apple iPhone 4S is a smash, holding back the Android tide, but as great as the numbers are, you miss Steve. Individuals matter. It was hard to get excited about their education presentation and it’s hard to be optimistic about the future. One man can make all the difference. But they could maintain their […]

Neil Young’s Music Rescue Mission (Video) Protecting their business model of having people pay exorbitant amounts to attend their conferences, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher and their D: Dive Into Media conference refuse to post the entire Neil Young interview online. One wonders if they too have been paying attention to what has happened in […]