The modern music business was built by Mo Ostin, and don’t EVER forget it! Not that it was only Mo.  It was completely different from today.  There was a whole team of dedicated staffers.  Who didn’t have to worry about job security.  Who were handsomely paid, even if they didn’t wear the title "President".  Mo […]

This is what’s wrong with the music business. I hate CDs.  They’re inconvenient.  I’m a mobile person.  Moving from room to room.  I’m not about to cart my skipping Discman with me, the iPod ELIMINATED that problem.  Yet major labels still send CDs.  What’s next?  Car companies delivering containers of STEAM?  Hell, the Stanley Steamer […]

1. Songs This is one thing Clive Davis has right.  How you play, how you sing, how you look…they’re all secondary to the TUNES! If you want to reinvent the form, you’d better be REALLY talented.  Like Freddy Mercury with "Bohemian Rhapsody".  Or realize that the odds of breaking big via radio/video airplay are almost […]

From: Nick Porcella I don’t know if you have plans to go when he makes it out your way, but it might be in your best musical interests if you did.  I just saw the Radio City show in NYC – InFuckingCredible.  I was born 15 years too late so I was never able to […]