Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


If You Still Want My Love

If You Still Want My Love – Spotify What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where the new Cheap Trick song is a smash, a complete return to form, proving the band’s still got it when we gave up hope decades ago and have considered them an oldies act ever since? […]

Originality

I’m listening to Taylor Swift. I know, I know, she hates me, with her you’re either in or you’re out, we were friends and then I called her out and she wrote that song about me and people still tweet hate to me about it but “Tell Me Why” came up on random as I […]

Peak Festival

It’s not about talent, it’s about branding. That’s why Coachella can sell out before announcing acts and Glastonbury’s such an institution, they’re rites of passage in a world based on experiences, acquisition is the baby boomers’ drug of choice, whereas their progeny are satisfied with photographs, get the latest mobile handset and post to Instagram, […]

Manufacturing Authenticity

I was sitting in a darkened airplane reading the Business section of the “New York Times.” What kind of bizarre world do we live in where there’s more analysis and facts in the NYT than the supposed business paper of record, the “Wall Street Journal”? One in which the President denigrates the press, the liberals […]