As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow to a Trickle No one ever reads to the end. Wherein it is stated, by both Cliff Burnstein and Don Passman, paragons of the old model, that the future’s so bright they gotta wear shades. Isn’t it funny that the artists are bitching about Spotify. You didn’t hear them […]

Screw Driver 1. It’s FANTASTIC! 2. Rule number one in today’s online, media overload world is…YOU HAVE TO WANT TO PLAY IT AGAIN! And if you don’t want to hear “Screw Driver” again as soon as it’s over, you’ve got no genitals…and no ears. 3. That’s the new definition of fantastic. It’s a knee-jerk reaction. […]

HMV Did you see that story in the “Sunday Times” entitled “Music giants rush to save HMV”?  Music giants rush to save HMV Ain’t that the entertainment business, always with one foot in the past, propping up that which is going under. They don’t even listen to their own artists, what did Bob Dylan so […]

Justin Timberlake got everybody to pay attention for twenty four hours. And now we’re done. David Bowie’s reign was a bit longer, he was gone longer, but we all know when the album comes out it will sell for a week, and then fall off the chart. Used to be it took forever to reach […]