Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Inside Out

We don’t do this anymore in the music business. We don’t have any blockbuster acts reinventing themselves with every project, garnering stellar reviews and great customer word of mouth which ultimately rains coin and makes everybody happy. That’s right. After a detour into sequelmania, which generates cash but leaves everybody unsatisfied, Pixar dropped a blockbuster […]

Elliott Murphy At Cafe de Flore

He’s not quite the last of the rock stars, but he’s still a believer, he’s still pursuing his dream, when so many have been lost and forgotten. It was drizzling today in Paris. And when I sat by the fountain in the Tuileries I felt like I’d come full circle. I remember sitting in the […]

The Chunnel

There’s an animal on the track. Or a train derailed. Info is sketchy, all I know is the Eurostar is delayed, so I figured I’d weigh in with a report. Greetings from London, England. Where I went with Felice’s family for a screening of “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” at the Royal Albert Hall. Amazing to see […]

Apple Music

It’s toast. Its success was based upon eliminating free. But that positively non-techie entity known as the government put the kibosh on that. Now the labels and Apple are too scared to enact their plan of eliminating freemium. So while the techies leap ahead, creating solutions to problems we didn’t even know we had, those […]