Just because you’re a rock star, that doesn’t make you right. In case you missed it, Roger Waters railed against techies in the London “Times” behind a paywall, but read a snippet here: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters accuses music industry of ‘stealing every fucking cent anybody ever made’ and now we’ve got to see his […]

Nobody wants to watch the Discovery Channel. 2.9 million people viewed “Naked and Afraid.” But a hundred million paid for it. More than a buck a month. The CEO made $156 million. Now what? Lawsuits. Verizon is following the customer, allowing its FiOS TV subscribers to pick and choose channels. And the content providers are […]

The Allman Brothers had a slow build, their initial album was ignored, the second was known only by cognoscenti and the third blew up, not through airplay, but WORD OF MOUTH! Imagine there was a band so good, people couldn’t stop testifying about them, dragging their friends to a show so adventurous yet refined that […]

IT’S WHO YOU KNOW A spice rub company couldn’t get arrested at Sam’s Club, they’d been trying to get their product stocked for years, but once they made a deal with Barbara Corcoran, voila!, they were in. Stop becoming such an expert. You’re not. It’s great to be a student of the game, to know […]