Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Artistic Requirements

TRUTH In the land of the phony it’s your responsibility to speak from the heart in an unfiltered way. If you’re second-guessing the audience, you’re already in trouble. Put the beer company in your song and you’ve lost credibility, and credibility is key to believability and longevity. It’s your duty to reach down into the […]

Adele

Why has she sold six times as many albums as her competitors in the marketplace? Last night I went to dinner at BOA with seven others. For those unfamiliar with the territory, BOA is a steakhouse on the border of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, it sits astride Sunset Boulevard in a high rise housing […]

Deezer Hi-Def On Sonos

INCREDIBLE! I can see you in the morning when you go to school “Crime Of The Century.” That’s the album we used to take to the stereo store, to demo the products, to decide what we wanted to buy, that’s what I’m listening to right now on Sonos via Deezer Elite. Actually, there’s that sound […]

Lena Dunham/Free Work

“Lena Dunham Does Not Pay” “Why stars like Lena Dunham ask aspiring performers to work for free” What stuns me here is Ms. Dunham and her publisher, Random House, and the writer for the “New York Times” were completely unaware of the Amanda Palmer kerfuffle. Yes, Amanda too wanted her fans to perform for free. […]