Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Ethel

Okay, I got e-mail wondering if Cliff Burnstein was drinking some hootch, or… If you don’t know what Ethel is, you’re still listening to FM radio. Please read today’s "New York Times" on Mark Cuban and simultaneous delivery of movies to homes and theatres.  Oh, he’s talking about a DVD option, but hate to clue […]

Q Prime

So I’m sitting in Cliff’s office and he starts waxing RHAPSODIC about the Kaiser Chiefs song. Talk to anybody at a label these days.  They all say the same thing, it’s no FUN!  Instead of camaraderie and good times there’s an atmosphere of fear and nary a week goes by without another lifelong friend disappearing.  […]

Limp Play

Fred Durst once reprinted something I wrote on the Limp Bizkit Website. I hope he didn’t decide to release his band’s latest album sans hype/marketing because of what I wrote about Queens Of The Stone Age. You can’t change who you are in the middle of the game. I was discussing the new Coldplay album […]

White Room

The sixties were different. They were light, and dark, and nothing in between. Today we live in the gray. In the onslaught of media, nothing sticks out, nothing is in relief, we’re all hiding in our bunkers, trying to figure it all out. But, in the sixties, we ventured out, we wanted to experience IT […]