There’s too much music made by too many people and performers are frustrated they’re broke and listeners are completely overwhelmed.  What’s going to happen? Hit music will survive.  Even if the definition of a hit is a shadow of its former self.  There won’t be as many sales, few people will even be aware of […]

I was going to write about Saul Hansell’s article in the "New York Times" about the sale of "iPhone: The Missing Manual" at the App Store.  Mr. Hansell focused on the fact that people paid for it, but more interesting to me was that not only was this the number one computer book this year, […]

It finally caught up with Sheryl Crow.  Famous for showing up anywhere someone would pay her, seemingly at the opening of a mall (do they still build those?), Sheryl is now the poster girl for corporate excess.  All due to Maureen Dowd. Sheryl’s nice.  She had breast cancer.  She shows up at the appropriate rallies, […]

The live music model is broken because they broke it. It would fix itself if it were allowed to continue and Live Nation was prevented from using its ponzi scheme to announce the next deal without making the last one work. Wishful thinking?…no…this is from LN’s very own claim that the business won’t survive as […]