Meet the new bossSame as the old boss Pete Townshend Record labels are only as good as the acts they record and release.  No executive ever sold a record at Best Buy, never mind a download at iTunes.  In this crazy fucked-up world we live in somehow the execs think THEY are the artists. Artistry […]

1. Make A Video Unless it’s shot on a hand-held digicam from Best Buy, your total budget is under $5,000 and it appears on your Website only. 2. Never Appear On VH1 Unless you want to be like one of those losers commenting on "Best Week Ever" who still live with their parents and have […]

By perching themselves at the top of the pyramid, not interested in albums with initial sales potential less than gold (500,000), the major labels are insuring their own marginalization.  For it’s a long tail world, and he who does not participate in it is doomed. An aggregator must give something to its stable of clients, […]

Yup, this Sunday night, at 9 PM, on 97.1 Free FM here in Los Angeles.  Be there or be square (you can listen in on the Net by going to http://www.971freefm.com and clicking on "Live"). Now I got too much e-mail to respond on my trip to Mammoth re Lisa’s use of the racial epithet […]