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Kid Rock Responds

"GET OFF MY DICK"!!!    ……that was gonna be my email, hahahaha, but were buddies now, so ill be serious!! I really believe its about a connection to the artist and the "lack of" that plays a big part in this. When I would hear a Bob Seger or Run DMC record as a  kid, I […]

All Summer Long

Is Kid Rock selling a hundred thousand CDs a week because his album is not available on iTunes? Last year, Jay-Z famously refused to sell his new album at iTunes because he thought it would break up the flow, that it needed to be heard as a whole.  Despite being available digitally at Amazon, as […]

Switching Managers

I’m fascinated by Usher firing Benny Medina and returning to his mother for management.  The question arises…should you stay with who got you there, or switch allegiance to the big swinging dick? My friend Jake Gold built the Tragically Hip.  The first time I heard from him was back in ’89, when the band’s MCA […]

Sales-Week Ending 8/3/08

1. Sugarland "Love On The Inside" Sales this week: 171,383Percentage change: -45Weeks on: 2Cume: 485,117 You could say this is the power of a number one single, the positively inane "All I Want To Do". You could say that country fans haven’t learned how to download. You could say that this is the power of […]