This is TicketMaster’s idea of cool?  Overcharge me for the ticket (maybe not their fault, we can blame that one on the greedy act/manager/agent), then hit me with all kinds of bogus fees and then give me ONE FREE SONG?  Whoop-de-doo! Boy has TM got an image issue.  The public hates them.  If they wanted […]

I just got back from Burbank.  I was moving along swimmingly until I hit Westwood.  I’m reminded of why I stay home so much.  Hell, why go anywhere when the world is right here in front of me, on my 23" HD screen?  I can fire up the Web and go anywhere, INSTANTLY!  The real […]

It’s become less about what’s actually in the grooves than whether you can market it, and if so, what is the plan? No major label is going to release a Wild Man Fischer album today.  Music used to be art.  The act made it, THEN you figured out how to sell it.  You were a […]

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where a RECORD COMPANY names its new video division DEN OF THIEVES! God, you’d be stunned at the backlash I got for not writing about Ahmet Ertegun’s failure to pay royalties.  Oh, Ahmet looked like a hero to those enjoying his company’s productions, but […]