Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Headline Of The Day

"Live Nation to acquire Ticketmaster for $2.5 billion, plus $700 million in convenience charges."

Re-Get On Your Boots

Sometimes fact-checking fucks you up. I wanted to make sure that the U2 track was not in the iTunes Top 100, which it isn’t, but in doing further research, to make sure I was right, I searched on "Put On Your Boots" instead of "Get On Your Boots". The track still IS available at the […]

Concert Crisis

"’Money was flowing, easy money.  Anybody could qualify–I mean anybody.’  He knew a bank teller with an annual salary of twenty-three thousand dollars who had received a two-hundred-and-sixteen-thousand-dollar mortgage, with no money down and no income verification” not even a phone call from a lender." I don’t own my own home.  I haven’t even got […]

Holly Holy

Irving was raving to me about Jennifer Hudson.  He’d hooked up with Vijay Singh at the golf tournament and then gone to the Super Bowl.  But Irving, she was ON TAPE!  But he told me she sang live in the stadium, that Jennifer was in the league of Christina. Yeah, right. Last night I went […]