You are missing the points on leaks.  Once the album is delivered and in the pipeline the artist doesn’t freak out.  When it’s a leak of a work in progress it’s like photographing one of them in the nude that doesn’t want to do that…  the gnr leaks were poor quality unmixed and unfinished. My […]

A little birdie told me the deal with Best Buy is done.  All that’s left to do is sign the contract. Of all the marketing/distribution ideas I received in response to my missive, I’ll only reveal one, that upon the album’s release, Axl Rose should commit suicide. This is brilliant insight.  Nothing’s a better story […]

I don’t expect it to be good. You can lament the absence of Slash and Duff, but the real key was Izzy…  Izzy added the grit, the dirt, the rock and roll, once he left Guns N’ Roses, the band was like Wings.  Good, but no Beatles. Actually, not that good. Guns N’ Roses’ debut […]

Isn’t this how the labels got in trouble to begin with?  By making customers buy an entire, overpriced CD to get the single, the only track they wanted, oftentimes the only good track on the album? Pulling acts from iTunes is akin to winning the pennant but refusing to play in the World Series because […]