Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


District 9

Have you seen this movie? I was scavenging around the On Demand choices, looking for something to do my back exercises to, when I stumbled upon it on Starz.  Yes, I get Starz, I get ’em all, and I pay for ’em too, and I never watch ’em, which was incentive enough to screen this […]

The Death Of Pandora?

Uh-oh. With AT&T announcing limited wireless data plans, the unavailability of an unlimited plan unless you are a legacy customer, what does this mean for services that depend on streaming via the cloud, like Pandora? Pandora may be making money, but once its users find out they’ve got to pay to listen to that music, […]

The Tao Of Steve

1. Picking the right horse. "Apple is a company that doesn’t have the resources that everyone else has. We choose what tech horses to ride, we look for tech that has a future and is headed up. Different pieces of tech go in cycles… they have summer and then they go to the grave." This […]

Dealing With A Manager

From: Charlie BruscoSubject: RE: Kevin Lyman Speaks The TruthTo: Bob LefsetzCc: Tommy Shaw, James Young, Phil Carson, Stewart Young, Rod Essig, Rob Light, Danny Zelisko, Larry Vallon, Ryan Young, Taki Pappas, Mark Campana Bob… I continually hear you talk about acts charging too much and ticket prices being too high and you lumped the Styx, […]