Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Music Trumps Everything

Read this story: The secret of Adele’s success?  No festivals, tweeting – or selling out.  Soul superstar reveals how staying small has made her massive This is SO right it should be distributed to every wannabe musician to shed light on the proper direction to take in a career. It’s about music.  And credibility.  And […]

Lady GaGa’s Manager Responds

From: Troy CarterSubject: Re: Lady GaGa/Amazon Bob, I’m going to start calling you Charles Barkley! On second thought, Charles Barkley was at least a player in the game before he was a commentator. With all due respect, it’s very easy to sit on the sideline and call plays. It’s a totally different story to be […]

E-Mail Of The Day

From: Michael ShrieveSubject: Re: Rattlesnake Shake Well Fuck, God Bless you for caring enough about the music to really seek it out. Peter was a friend of mine back in the 70’s. Sometimes, when I was on tour with Santana, which was always, and Peter was in the Bay Area, I’d loan him my house […]

Lady GaGa/Amazon

It was supposed to be Groupon. The "Wall Street Journal" quotes an insider who says that the iTunes Store and Amazon combined moved 250-350,000 copies of the album.  And that’s just piss poor.  Especially in a country of 300 million. Bottom line… Amazon could not get the word out. Record labels pray at the altar […]