Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Dinosaurs On The Road

KISS Cannot tour again.  They reunited.  Did a stadium farewell tour with the original band.  They’ve said goodbye so many times I can’t keep the RETIREMENTS straight.  Why does anybody want to see them before they go ANYWAY, they SUCK! Kiss was a band for those too young to participate in the sixties.  "Rock And […]

Selling By Track

It reminds me of the year 2000.  Only this time the dupes aren’t the venture capitalists, but the labels themselves. Back at the turn of the decade, Silicon Valley financiers believed technology triumphed.  They believed if they built it, people would come.  And people did.  It’s just that the labels didn’t.  And, without licenses, all […]

The Sony Debacle

Can you say PERRIER? I bet you most people under thirty can’t.  Because they don’t remember when water was synonymous with this brand.  Before traces of benzene contaminated the product and the company’s water was recalled from the shelves.  AFTER the French enterprise said it was no big deal, that a little benzene wouldn’t hurt […]

Sound Response

"I have always believed that music can help bring people together.  It’s crucial now that we all unite to help our friends in the Gulf Coast put their lives back together." – James Blunt Who gives a FUCK what James Blunt has to say about hurricane relief.  Isn’t that like quoting Samkon Gado, the wannabe doctor […]