Week Ending Nov. 25, 2012. Albums: Crash And Burn Winners and losers. That’s the world we live in today. Despite huge promotional campaigns, wherein these acts get reams of old wave media mentions, it turns out the public either wants you or it doesn’t, either knows of you and must buy your new work, or […]

I just got off the phone with Michael Marion. He runs the Verizon Arena in Little Rock. He does paperless for every show. EVERY SHOW! The 4,000 best seats, that’s the only way you can buy them. If he scales the house down from its usual 18,000 seat capacity, he reduces the percentage of paperless […]

1. Empower Your Fans They’re the key to your success, not the mainstream media. Fans are forever, newspapers are not, never mind the reporters who write for them. Your fans believe in you, have time for you, are dedicated to you, reciprocate. Fans want information. Which they can spread. Encourage fan sites. Give exclusives. Give […]

Stiffs. The power of the individual is underestimated in America. For every person who feels powerless there’s another who confronts the headwinds and wins through sheer determination. Not that there’s not talent involved. And I’ll argue Clive Davis did not find his niche at Columbia. He takes a lot of credit for signing those Monterey […]