So can you still get rich playing music? In the nineties we had megastars.  Boy bands that sold diamond, over 10,000,000 copies of their albums.  They could even sell two million in a week! Did online theft kill those sales, or was it choice? What does it mean to be a musician?  Is it the […]

Was Napster a partner or an enemy? CD sales were down 32% from the comparable week last year.  Was this foreseeable? The world started to change in 1995, when AOL took hold.  Think back to that time.  People who had previously been afraid of computers, who saw no need for them, were trooping down to […]

Yep! The bullshit aptly described and decried – blame it on the "industrialization of music" that occurred during the "rock revolution" when the bottom line (instead of art) became what mattered. This "creeping capitalization" and the transformation of "the music business" to the "entertainment industry" have suborned all values to the over-riding necessity of profit. […]

The Zimmers "My Generation" Used to be you couldn’t reach the old farts.  They didn’t go to school, they didn’t go out to clubs, they were positively out of the loop.  Isn’t that what selling CDs at Starbucks is predicated on?  Baby boomers being out of the loop? But suddenly, baby boomers have learned how […]