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Utterly Hysterical!

From: Kirk Turner Re: Want To Want Me Hey Bob! Just thought it was interesting that you wrote posts about Luke Bryan and Jason Derulo separately this weekend and now they are singing a duet together using a karaoke app. IT’S LIKE YOU PREDICTED THE FUTURE. Here’s the duet on Smule’s website: http://bit.ly/1htFc0O Here it […]

11 Million Subs

How come no one is calling Apple Music a disaster? Forget the usability issues, all the industry hype about Beats 1. The truth is the public just doesn’t care. In case you missed the memo, Eddy Cue told “USA Today” that 11 million people signed up for an Apple Music subscription. Talk to Twitter, registered […]

Taylor Swift In Vanity Fair

It’s shit like this that makes me think music is doomed, if not our whole damn nation. Taylor Swift might have lived a life on the road, but she didn’t go to college and get the knowledge, the powers of analysis that would allow her to parse details and come up with cogent statements, never […]

Re-New Rules

Re-New Rules From: Mike Vial Here’s 11 for the newbies: 1. Learn to self-record: It’s the one missing skill that’s holding me back. Recording may be cheaper than decades ago, but doing a record for 5K, 10K, 20K is still a lot of money to self-fund those first releases before being able to leverage; and […]