Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


e-books

Don’t tell me you love the physical version.  You’re the same people who e-mailed me a decade ago telling me that nothing could be superior to the CD.  I would say you’re part of the problem, but you’re completely inconsequential. What is the value of a book? No, let’s change it to an equation you […]

Extreme Marketing

Has anybody heard the Josh Freese album? The Internet not only allowed anybody to make and distribute music, it allowed them an opportunity to try and sell it. Suddenly, we’ve got millions of mini-Madonnas, familiar with her biography from music television, they figure if they just get in enough people’s faces, evidence their raw desire, […]

E-Mail Of The Day

Subject: Re: I’m A PC Dear Bob.  Yes! I DID read the New York Times article today (even though I AM a career indie rock college drop out), and the same quotes about the "I am a PC" ad campaign jumped out at me, too. Too many lame-ass, greedy cooks in the kitchen! The soup […]

I’m A PC

Did you read that article in today’s "New York Times" about Microsoft’s response to the Apple "Get A Mac" ads?  Deep in, at the bottom of the second to last column, it says this: "On Madison Avenue, they say that the more hands that touch an advertisement, the worse it becomes." That’s the beef, but […]