Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Grammy Nomination Expansion

This is bullshit. The problem wasn’t that women and minorities weren’t being nominated, but that they weren’t WINNING! How in the hell is increasing the nominees in the top categories gonna solve this? It isn’t. It’s just tokenism. For an organization that is all about protecting the interests of marginal players at the expense of […]

Fake News

We’ve got it in the record business too. Let’s start with the charts. WRONG! They exist for the producers, not the customers. They don’t calculate what people are listening to, not when there’s a formula of paid streams, video streams, sales and… But the bottom line is what is #1 may not be that big […]

Arroyo Seco Weekend-Day One

Hurray For The Riff Raff was a revelation. Jack White was an inspiration. Jeff Goldblum was a surprise. And Gomez was having so much fun you felt like you wanted to join a band. It’s summer in Southern California. But despite being the longest days of the year, it gets cold at night. For the […]

Rival

It’s based on facial recognition technology. Ticketing is broken, can anybody fix it? Will anybody fix it? That’s what Nathan Hubbard has set out to do, the man who used to run Ticketmaster, he’s raised double digit millions and… I first saw a demonstration last September, when it was in stealth. But now, since it’s […]