Archive for 2012/02


BigChampagne On The McCartney Album

Re: BitTorrent activity on Paul McCartney’s "Kisses on the Bottom," the album is being traded at a fraction of comparable titles. Van Halen’s "A Different Kind Of Truth," also released yesterday, is being traded at about 4X the volume of "Kisses," and Leonard Cohen’s "Old Ideas" is seeing more than double the audience of McCartney’s […]

McCartney Pulls From Spotify

Updated: Paul McCartney Is Now Pulling His Albums from ‘All Streaming Services…’ Nobody gives a shit about his standards album anyway. Despite the reproduction of press releases in mainstream media, despite the reviews of said album in same, no one really cares. That’s the dirty little secret of being a classic rocker, you’re done, you’re […]

RayWJ

What if we don’t need radio. What if we don’t need television? What if we don’t need record companies and movie studios? What if we don’t need money? Let’s say you had a thriving business. Wouldn’t you do your best to protect it? That’s what all of the foregoing entities possess, a beachhead, profits, and […]

Atlantic Studios

They were DANCING! Last Thursday night I went to the Hotel Cafe to see Ed Sheeran. He was really quite special, he knew how to work the audience, he had them singing along, literally, helping him out with harmonies both on stage and off. Normally the acts there are nervous and unformed, beginning their careers. […]