What a fucked up country we live in. Let’s start with the net neutrality debacle in Congress.  Can you say "Clear Channel"?  How come these paid-off pricks, uninformed as to reality, too busy lunching and trying to keep their jobs to actually know what they’re legislating about, constantly vote against the public’s interest?  The telcos […]

There is an utterly fascinating article on the front page of today’s "Wall Street Journal" how Anheuser-Busch fucked up its business by making its beer ever lighter, removing its bitterness, in an effort to make the beer more drinkable to more people. As a result, the company lost market share and had to discount its […]

I know this guy, Marty Albertson, he’s CEO of Guitar Center. We had lunch at NAMM.  It’s a tradition.  He and Felice get together every year.  You see he’s on the board of the foundation she runs.  Although wearing a jacket, having decided a few years back that he wanted the industry to take his […]

I keep getting e-mail from disgruntled XM subscribers. That their favorite channel, #51, Music Lab, has bitten the dust. I’ll print one below. This is totally fucked up. The promise of satellite radio was to go deep, to provide something for EVERYONE! But the new regime at XM, the Infinity assholes, are turning XM into […]