FRUSTRATED BANDS WILL SIGN WITH MAJOR LABELS Portugal. The Man just did. The major doesn’t want you if you’re brand new, not unless you can be molded into a Top Forty superstar. But they do want to cherry-pick anybody with significant success. Most bands make this deal. They’re sick of being broke. If you want […]

Great radio keeps you tuned in after you’ve reached your destination. Last night I could not turn Howard Stern off, even though it was 1:30 AM and I’d been up since 7 and I was where I wanted to be. Now I’m a bit pissed at Howard. Because he went soft on Gaga. I know, […]

Dear Bob, I gave a thematically similar address at NARM in May, which I have attached. To me, the opportunity for musicians is to view HTML 5 and the hypernet as canvases for making new music products to replace CD/mp3. To have any value, these products need to go miles beyond what Google did for […]

Roger McNamee at The Paley Center For Media Now I know how he closed Bono. McNamee is incredibly convincing in this video. And you should watch it. It’s got all the excitement we used to have in music that’s gone now, and according to McNamee, a musician himself, with the journeyman band Moonalice, it might […]