Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


WME

I told them they should call it "William Morris"…AND THEY FREAKED OUT! Take everything I say below with a giant grain of salt, because I was paid. There, you’ve got the disclaimer up front. Hell, Geiger didn’t even want me to write this, or to run it by him first if I felt the need, […]

Obscurity Is Your Friend

I know it’s counterintuitive, but think about it. I was on the phone with a publisher, he was encouraging me to do a book. In the conversation he revealed he was a big Ryan Adams fan, even e-mailed me the one released track from his new album Lucky Now – Ryan Adams And in our […]

Jeff Bridges Sales

13,197. In a country of 300 million. That’s piss-poor. That shows you just can’t jam product down people’s throats anymore. The old game is dead. Good riddance. But you say those sales still qualified Jeff’s album for #25 on the chart, which ain’t bad. I’ll say, which way do you want to have it. Albums […]

Pistol Annies

Too many people who would like this album will never hear it. You see country is the new rock and roll. Or, more accurately, the old rock and roll. But it’s wrapped up in so much ass-kissing right wing family values bullshit that there’s a wall through which the music doesn’t penetrate, it lives in […]