Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Warner Sells Spotify Stock

After Sony blows out half of its investment. This is what’s wrong with the record companies, this is what’s wrong with AMERICA! The short-term thinking. Stockholders in Spotify all agree, its value is going up. Of course it’s the stock market, no one can predict the future. But trading is thin, because investors believe there’s […]

FYF Cancellation

It’s about branding. The F in FYF stood for a four letter word, the festival was anti, for those out of the mainstream, the overlooked who gather together to hear bands that speak to them, and possibly no one else. Whereas Janet Jackson is purely mainstream, she speaks primarily to people who don’t want to […]

Shep Gordon-This Week’s Podcast

Yes, Supermensch himself! You’ve seen the movie, read the book, but we get into nooks and crannies previously unexplored and if you want to go deep into the mind-set of the genius behind Alice Cooper, Emeril Lagasse and even Groucho Marx, this is the place! One thing Shep said that stuck out to me was […]

Troy Carter-MMS Day One

He was broke before Gaga, his wife pawned her ring, he was struggling, and then… This was after going to Job Corps for a year and getting his GED, working for DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince after getting a record deal and failing. He was a concert promoter, he met Puffy, he interned […]