Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Dead

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 […]

Spike Publicity

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 […]

Howard Stern

It’s a full time job listening to the show. I mean it’s 2 A.M. and I’m sitting in front of Felice’s house unable to turn the radio off. Howard’s interviewing the nerds, Robert Carradine and Curtis Armstrong, and it’s so damn real, so much the essence of life, that I figure if it doesn’t end […]

Martin Elbourne On HMV

From: Martin Elbourne Subject: HMV Date: January 14, 2013 1:29:47 PM PST UK last chain. In administration in morning. Just come up on BBC. Virgin France went under last week. Apparently Fnac about to as well. Big hit for the labels. Martin   From: Martin Elbourne Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2013 12:19 AM For those […]