Fascinating that on a day Steve Jobs introduced iPhone 4.0, it was reported that digital track sales in the first quarter actually declined. Oh, there’s some mumbo-jumbo about SoundScan reporting periods, but even if you adjust to the old window for comparison, sales would still be down .09% instead of 1%. In other words, the […]

World domination used to be extremely hard.  Music didn’t drive the culture and every territory played a different kind of music. Ubiquity occurred now and again, but it wasn’t until the Beatles that one sound dominated, that everywhere you went you heard the same records.  The Beatles gained that attention and then delivered upon it.  […]

When we were all in it together, the key was to be first.  Now we’re all grazing in different locations, stumbling upon things, and what might be new to us is actually old, but does anybody care? That’s a long-winded explanation for the fact that you might be wincing right now.  Lefsetz, you don’t know […]

This is so right, even I’m dying to attend, and I’m not that big a Wilco fan! 1. Context Major labels will ask who you sound like, they don’t want anything unique, just something similar to what came before. Now it’s about creating your own context.  No one has done this better than Wilco.  They […]