"Lopez dumped from "Idol" after seeking raise to $17 million" I’m reading Larry Butler’s book. "Larry Butler, who’s that?" Mr. Butler was an artist development guy at Warner Brothers forever, when it was still the WB we knew and loved. And before that he was a musician, he opened for the Stones! Well, I’m getting […]

You’d read an article about that, right? Actually, I caught up a week late, reading the responses, in the "New York" magazine that just arrived today. And after finishing that issue, I delved into the prior one, containing the aforementioned article, which was billed on the cover as "Does Money Make You Mean? How even […]

I thought Taylor Swift was taking a year off. What has Bob Pittman ever done, other than take undeserved credit and trump up publicity to make it look like he’s a wunderkind when in reality he’s a self-satisfied huckster barely different from a used car salesman. Do we really believe he started MTV all by […]

LUCIAN GRAINGE “‘It could be in five years that the digital landscape has the same choices as the physical landscape had 25 years ago,’ Mr. Grainge said.” Financial Times But it won’t. There’s one iTunes, one Google, one Facebook, one Netflix, one Amazon… Anyone who thinks the future of music retailing will resemble the brick […]