Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


The $20 Ticket

Can Kid Rock change the concert business? His father sold Lincolns. Where I grew up, there were no rich people. No bankers, no right wing titans ranting the poor were lazy and the government was taking all their hard-earned money. Some dads worked for the electric company, others sold insurance or held blue-collar jobs. The […]

E-Mail Of The Day

From: Matthew Milam Subject: Poker As someone that works in the movie business, this email hit close to home.  I often wonder why TV has eclipsed movies in terms of great content and you basically lay it out in the below email. In the 80s, you had 15 – 20 movie studios each putting out […]

How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away?

I miss Howard. I hope Mr. Stern is having fun on AGT this week, because it’s doing nothing for his career. Swinging for the fences, playing for an audience that just doesn’t care, he’s abandoned his hard core and we’re going through withdrawal. This is not about Howard Stern. You don’t have to subscribe to […]

Poker

It’s a game of statistics. Last night on Radiolab I heard Annie Duke say you couldn’t rely on tells. Because some people were too inexperienced to know whether they had a good hand or a bad one. Your only hope was to do the math. I don’t play cards. But it’s been the rage for […]