What are a label’s most important assets, its copyrights or its employees? Fascinating question. In Wednesday’s "Wall Street Journal" there was an article delineating the fact that those companies which laid off the most people ended up having the worst future.  Unless, of course, the basic economics of their sphere changed.  In other words, no […]

1 I don’t want to go hear your band. If you’re a good enough friend of mine, you might be able to drag me out, but I’m gonna dread the experience. And I’ve felt guilty about this.  No, not that I’m going to disappoint you, why should I care?  You’re just a tireless self-promoter trying […]

Indie music mogul: The net’s great for usBeggars boss Martin Mills I don’t agree with all of Martin Mills’s distribution philosophies, but what is fascinating is that the Beggars Group sells albums, because people consider them to be good. Rather than sign a pretty face, Beggars signs acts that focus on the music, and when […]

"The problem with music today is not how much is one song, we have so much we can’t choose from it. Maybe I should get paid to listen to one song, there are so many things that’s wrong with today’s model and needs to change." Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi is one of the four founders of […]