Archive for 2026/05


Sony Buys Recognition

Better Sony own these songs than the bank. But what we’ve learned here is all the rightsholders who sold to Hipgnosis based on Merck’s involvement… I hope you had a key man clause, which you couldn’t get anyway. Now the truth is most rightsholders are just interested in the money. As long as you pay […]

Tehran

1 Apple pulled off a masterstroke, but it’s not the fruit company news everybody is talking about. Yes, Apple gained the rights for Formula 1, which used to be free on ESPN and… Free TV is going the way of the dodo. There’s just too much money in desirable product for streamers not to lay […]

Blue Dot Fever

Many shows don’t sell out, who’da thunk? Yesterday everybody was complaining they couldn’t get a ticket and now they’re saying no one wants to go, which is it? What we’ve got here is the internet, where everybody reports, mostly without background knowledge, and then things are repeated as fact and… Suddenly you’ve got an issue […]

Redistricting

They keep telling us to believe in the system. And just to wait for the coming election(s). I remember Bill Maher predicting that Donald Trump wasn’t going to leave the White House if he lost in 2020. One after another Democratic bigwig smiled and laughed and then schooled Maher that the system would hold. OH […]