Fastball can’t get paid. I got a call from their manager Ron Stone today. The band was due their 20k on 1/1, Pledge said to wait a while, they’d dribble it out over time. And then when Ron pushed for the money, Pledge went silent, it’s been three weeks now without a return phone call. […]

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Sure, Billy McFarland is a sociopath and a crook. But everybody working for him wanted to get paid. And everybody who bought tickets to the festival wanted to live the dream. This is not a music business story, even though it was first depicted as such. The movie is about what a bad guy Billy […]

That’s the number of albums A Boogie Wit da Hoodie sold last week to enter the chart at number one. And those were downloads, there wasn’t even a physical version. So this ends the debate, everybody bitching about streaming, the war is over. Actually, complaining about music distribution/consumption is so old school. And a consumption […]