Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Live Nation’s Reality Series

Who’d want to watch it? Oh I know, it’s all paid for by Ford. And whenever a brand gets involved, everybody in the music business bends over and takes it in the rear for the little cash flowing their way. That’s how far we’ve come. Tour riders were about rock and roll excess, the lifestyle, […]

Royals

It just went to number one. Yes, Katy Perry boxed on the VMAs. Miley Cyrus showed everything but her box. But the woman with the most infectious track, who neither looks like a model nor acts like one, who has not taken off her clothes, who has not worked with the producers du jour, has […]

Wrecking Ball

It’s a good record. Miley was taking no chances, at least not her manager, Larry Rudolph. What you’ve got is a faded teen star, the heartthrob of those without pubes, heading straight to the 7-11. How to make her relevant today? Have her grow up? This is something that Scooter Braun has been unable to […]

What You Want Is In The Limo

What You Want Is in the Limo I’m fried from dental work, but I don’t want another moment to go by without hipping you to this book, could be the best rock and roll primer on the planet. Huh? I’ve about given up reading rock and roll books. Always poorly written, they never tell you […]