I’m constantly bombarded with e-mails from entrepreneurs promoting their new business ideas.  They’re almost always a newfangled label. It’s no longer about the label.  It’s about the talent. Used to be you needed money.  To navigate the waters of distribution and marketing.  But although those can now help, they’re an ever-decreasing part of the pie.  […]

As if you needed convincing terrestrial radio was about advertising… America’s number one country radio station changed formats Thursday because…you just can’t make it appealing to white people. Yup, that’s what the head of EMMIS Radio said. In the melting pot of Los Angeles, appealing only to shitkickers, and their middle-class baby boomer brethren who’ve […]

Blame Chumbawamba.  And Smash Mouth.  If you bought their albums to get "Tubthumping" and "Walkin’ On The Sun" respectively you found out not only was there nothing close to as catchy on these overpriced discs, there wasn’t even anything that SOUNDED SIMILAR! The audience was about to cry uncle anyway.  What with the bloated albums […]

5. Slayer "Christ Illusion" Debut: 62,449 Wow, makes you yearn for the days of yore, doesn’t it.  Pre-SoundScan.  When an act like this had NO CHANCE of making the Top Ten, not unless for some reason they suddenly caught fire with a radio track.  But that’s not gonna happen here.  Slayer’s hard core fans all […]