Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Lips Of An Angel

Honey why are you calling me so late?It’s kinda hard to talk right now "Rolling Stone" got one thing right.  They declared Gnarls Barkley’s "Crazy" song of the decade. I remember exactly where I heard it.  I remember coming home and going straight to the computer and stealing it.  (At that point you couldn’t buy […]

Website Of The Year

http://www.tmz.com/ Once upon a time, Perez Hilton ruled the online gossip sphere.  He treaded where no major corporation risked playing.  Because the old farts don’t understand that today we’re interested in people more than events and we just want the facts. If only Perez had realized this.  Amateurs make inroads, professionals dominate.  Perez thought people […]

Rock Stars

Did the Beatles plan on dominating the world? No, they just wanted to escape a life of drudgery in Liverpool. But their music became a mania.  Suddenly, not only were they rich and famous, they had innumerable groupies beckoning. Like Tiger Woods. When the Beatles hit, even into the heyday of Led Zeppelin in the […]

Blu-ray

You can get a player for ninety nine bucks. Check out Wednesday’s article in the "Wall Street Journal": "Dreaming Of a Blu Christmas" (behind a pay wall, unfortunately, but you might find it via Google, Rupert Murdoch is so concerned with making bucks that he doesn’t see he’s heading straight towards irrelevancy). It looked like […]