You don’t go to Coachella for the bands, but the experience. Which is why festivals take a while to get traction, it takes time for the audience to spread the word about…the layout, the food, the camping, the toilets… Sometimes the talent gets better over time, but today the lineup’s pretty damn good on the […]

Has it really been nine years since “In Rainbows”? Then the issue was getting paid. Now the issue is getting attention. That’s what the greedy bigwigs don’t understand. If you lock it up behind a paywall you could end up broke, or hobbled. Think of how much money Prince would have made if his music […]

The film business is fighting Sean Parker’s Screening Room. The book business is fighting Amazon’s Kindle. And the music business is sitting in the present, the most up-to-date media vertical extant. And yet people still complain. Do you want to pay $150 for a device that would allow you to stream first run films for […]

NOT EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR NAME This is what the internet has wrought. It hasn’t made everybody a star, hasn’t lifted the obscure to ubiquity, but it has muddied the water with so much information that it’s nearly impossible to break through. You may be on television, you may be on the cover of a magazine, […]