05.02.06 Fleamail May 2, 2006 Doesn’t this sound suspiciously like the Oscar campaign telling us that a movie is only good if you see it in a THEATRE? Decades after Burger King made major inroads into McDonald’s market share by announcing to consumers they could have it "their way", backward record companies and artists STILL […]

The most important story transpiring in the music business this week is taking place in Canada.  Where first the indie labels and now the artists are in REVOLT!  Not against their customers, but CRIA, the north of the border equivalent of the RIAA. CRIA was cozying up to legislators, with a worldwide agenda that didn’t […]

I’m going to print more Coachella responses.  So that people don’t accuse me of being biased, I’m not going to edit them and am only going to exclude those that are completely redundant and incomprehensible. Now it took ME forever to slog through these.  So, I wasn’t going to reprint them, I was done.  But […]

If I get one more e-mail from some holier-than-thou hipster who believes he’s got his finger on the pulse of music who ogled babes and got within spitting distance of Madonna at Coachella I’m gonna hunt down Randy Phillips and the Goldenvoice team personally and slit their throats so this festival can never take place […]