Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Grit

The number one complaint I get about Amanda Palmer’s success is her music sucks. I’ll tell you one thing, it’s not mainstream, it’s never going to be embraced by everybody, but Ms. Palmer has created a lucrative niche that others desire to inhabit, so they watch her TED talk believing they’ll learn how. But that’s […]

Jack Jones

He was taking a panoramic photograph on his iPhone 5. What do I know about Jack Jones? I was sitting by the pool at the Flamingo and he walked by and tapped my little sister on the head, it was a family story that has lived on to this day, one of the highlights of […]

Kanye/Kimmel

It’s a gift. Or to quote a famous seer, you punch up, not down. Yes, despite Jimmy being on ABC, Kanye West is a much bigger star than Kimmel. In the old days, network television made you a king. Today, a rotund Korean pop star can be much more famous as a result of many […]

Porn

Got your attention there, didn’t I? If you want to know the future for all media, look to pornography, it leads the way. Porn was the first to videocassette, the first to DVD, the first to the Internet, and the first to be eviscerated by the Web. Wait a minute? It’s EVERYWHERE! There’s more porn […]