Lou Reed & Metallica "Lulu" This week: #149Last week: #34Weeks on chart: 2Sales this week: 3,150Cume: 16,470 The problem was everybody heard it before it was released. One could argue that the way to combat this is to lock it down, make people buy it in order to hear it, but that’s not the modern […]

1. You’ve got to know people. Word of mouth can spread only if you know other mouths. 2. The agent had a friend who knew the band, he checked them out, he signed them. Then what… 3. It was about the agent’s relationships. Used to be the start was a record deal, now you begin […]

Imagine I didn’t think I cared about Chris Cornell. He turned me off when he worked with Timbaland. When you start doing anything for a hit, when you start getting desperate, we abandon you. Works that way in relationships, works that way in music. As for the Soundgarden reunion…what else were they gonna do? Same […]

So I’m reading about the police clearing Zuccotti Park and I’m thinking we already had our protest in the music industry. And the public won. Back before MTV reared its dominant head, we could count on the acts to keep the labels in line. Tom Petty famously filed for bankruptcy rather than be treated like […]