Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Hope For Haiti Telethon

The problem is, it’s no longer 2001, when Jimmy Iovine conspired to take over the airwaves and promote Enrique Iglesias and Fred Durst alongside the Boss and Neil Young.  That was appointment television. There is no more appointment TV.  I wait until the next day, to hear what’s good, then I watch it on YouTube.  […]

The Tommy Silverman Debacle

Tommy’s larger than life, but so old school as to make Will Ferrell seem like a high school student. Tommy’s a hustler.  Who made it on his own ingenuity and ears.  But does what he have to say today truly apply? Maybe you’re not in the same network as me, but I’ve been e-mailed Tommy’s […]

Sales-Week Ending-1/17/10

1. Vampire Weekend "Contra" Sales this week: 123,597Debut And next week? Now we all know the album’s coming out, all the fans anyway.  We even read about it in the "New Yorker"!  (Shitty article, by the way…)  So, the graduates of elite universities are elated.  They all bought this the first week out.  Next week? […]

Danny Kortchmar Weighs In

Hey Bob, Fuck all this bullshit…. A message to the Killers ..the yeah yeah yeahs .. mgmt…fall out boy..etc..try writing ONE song that has the power and truth of The Pretender, or Millworker by JT, or anything by Bruce or "Not Dark Yet" by Dylan or "Won’t Get Fooled Again…how ’bout it,"Monsters Of Folk? Do […]