Sold 517,000 albums last week.  The third highest debut this year, after Lil’ Wayne’s "Tha Carter III" with 1,006,000 and Coldplay’s "Viva La Vida" with 721,000. That’s piss poor. ‘N Sync sold 1.1 million albums IN ONE DAY!  By time a week had passed, "No Strings Attached" had sold 2.4 million copies!  Are the Jonas […]

Personally, I’d rather hear a new Talking Heads album produced by Eno.  The Heads were a better fit than Coldplay will ever be.  Because the Heads were more about sound than songs…well, sound played an integral part.  Compare "Talking Heads: 77" to "More Songs About Buildings and Food" to get the idea.  Sure, "77" contained […]

The reason they can’t hire anybody is everybody with a shred of tech knowledge knows it’s going to be a disaster.  MySpace is so 2006…  And its software/interface sucks.  And there was no traction with Snocap…  So suddenly, because fat cats found out social networking/Web 2.0 was the next big thing, they’re going to anoint […]

WHOLE PAYCHECK I had lunch at Whole Foods yesterday. Don’t know if you’ve been following the story on this market.  It’s in trouble.  One of its main suppliers of meat was sold, switched processors and the chain’s customers became very ill.  Bad press if you’re perching yourself at the top of the market, as the […]