Now this deal makes sense. This is how I remind you that the major labels are too hip for the room. None of them wanted to sign Nickelback, they had to go to an indie. You could hear the greatness on their RoadRunner debut, all that was absent was the hit single. Which came on […]

1. Irving Azoff In recorded music sales content is not king, distribution is king. Irving controls superstar sales at Wal-Mart, the number one physical distributor. And, as he’s been quoted ad infinitum, the digital sales at the iTunes Store for the Eagles suck, don’t equal those from one live performance, so what difference does online […]

Last night I heard "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" on XM. How many great tracks are there on "Born To Run"? Better yet, name a loser! Maybe "Night". My favorites are "Meeting Across The River" and "Jungleland". Did I ever tell you I saw Bruce perform "Jungleland" at the Bottom Line in the summer of ’74, before […]

The paradigm was established by Steve Jobs. You get beaten up in the press and you don’t respond. Antithetical to schoolyard ethics, but it seems to be the only solution these days. You see the mob will bring you down. Bob Dylan said it best:While one who sings with his tongue on fireGargles in the […]