Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Lilith Disaster

Lilith Fair co-founder Terry McBride on the tour’s travails: ‘No matter what the media says, there won’t be any more cancellations’ Read the comments. Terry McBride is making a classic twenty first century mistake.  He’s playing to the media, not the fans. Yes, Lilith got caught in the Tour Crunch Of 2010.  It played by […]

Online Video Monetization

How can Vevo not be profitable? That’s what Rio Caraeff said in the "Financial Times".  That "We hope to be profitable in a fairly short number of years." Let me see…  You aggregate already produced videos, which in any event are on a different balance sheet, you make a deal with YouTube wherein 80-90% of […]

TM/LN Synergy

This is what we’ve been waiting for!  Finally, months after approval, the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger has paid dividends.  Now, if you’re a Ticketmaster customer you’ve just received an e-mail offering you $25 in Live Nation cash when you join the Zagat Wine Club.  Whoopie! Now I’m gonna be so high when ordering tickets I won’t […]

Ibiza

F*ck Me I’m Famous. That’s what it says on the billboard into town. You’d think it’s Los Angeles in the seventies, with billboards for records flanking the roadway.  There’s no concert recession in Ibiza, then again, are these giant raves/clubs actually concerts? A little backstory. Felice has a brother.  Who comes to Ibiza for two […]