You don’t succeed by doing what’s been done before. Poorly. This is why labels should not be worried about monoliths stealing their business. Google can’t get any traction with All Access, no one seems to be aware that Microsoft’s OS comes with music. Disruption may happen, but it’ll come from left field, from nobodies. That’s […]

You fire your manager AFTER your album stiffs, not before. And that’s where Lady Gaga’s long player is headed, straight for the dumper. Once upon a time, in the midnineties, the label could function as the manager. But that was back when most of your revenue came from recorded music, when overpriced CDs were flying […]

HATERS It hurts, but the truth is hating is done by an underclass of people pissed that their dreams have not come true. Instead of looking inside, instead of working harder, instead of figuring out the problem is the system and not them, they needle those who are successful in an effort to make them […]

TO FEEL A MEMBER OF THE GROUP All this focus on social networks has been about money, i.e. ads, going public, but there’s been very little focus on what it feels like to be a member of society today. Or not. There’s this illusion since every rapper has a posse and every person has a […]