Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Gallagher On WTF

WTF – Episode 145 – Gallagher Have you got an hour? Nobody has an hour, not even prepubescents scheduled to the max by parents who believe if they don’t get into an Ivy League school their lives will be ruined. But we’ve all got time for greatness. I want you to listen to this podcast. […]

Dice

"It ain’t how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward." Rocky Balboa Marc Maron’s podcast was referenced in today’s "New York Times". He’s a comic. I knew his name but was clueless as to what he did until a month or two ago, when I got clued […]

Rap’s hard sell-Blame It On The Alcohol

Pitbull, ‘Diddy’ and other rappers step up alcohol endorsements I’m running out to the movies, but I was just eating some breakfast and reading the newspaper and I read a story so intriguing and horrifying I just had to alert you. Maybe I’m getting old. Maybe I grew up in a different era, where music […]

Barry’s Book

Barry Fey It’s not well-written, but you can’t put it down. The public did not kill the music business. Blame MTV, Bob Sillerman, the Telecommunications Act of 1996. But don’t blame the people. The people know the power of sound. They know greatness when they hear it. But greed squeezed integrity out of the music […]