Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


STOP WITH THE UNSOLICTED MP3s

What if I came to your door and harangued you for twenty minutes trying to convince you to buy something you don’t want, that you’ve got no interest in, whose purchase will benefit me, not you. NOW YOU KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE WHEN YOU E-MAIL ME UNSOLICITED MP3s! It’s bad enough when you send me […]

Quality

It’s kind of like stereo. Does a $50,000 stereo sound ten times better than a $5,000 stereo? No, it doesn’t even sound ten times better than the buds on your iPhone. You see the last 10% is elusive. It’s easy to get to 90%. Approach 100%? Almost impossible. In the wake of writing about Shannon […]

Shannon Labrie

This unsolicited stuff is never good. But this is: I Remember A Boy To the point where I decided to do some research. The first Google hit was her homepage. (http://www.shannonlabrie.com/) That’s good, that’s professional, it’s hard to take you seriously unless you’ve got one. But I had to wait for it to load, because […]

Save The Country

The Top Five people on Twitter are all musicians. Lady Gaga is number one with 22,131,698 followers. At number five, we’ve got Shakira, with 15,264,505. And in between, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Rihanna. Britney Spears is number six. Taylor Swift number nine. In other words, the bankers may have all the money, but musicians […]