Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Careers

If I hear one more "artist" complain that he can’t make any money selling recorded music I’m going to explode. You shouldn’t be in the business of selling recorded music, you should be in the business of establishing a CAREER! Oh, then there’s the professional songwriter, bitching too. Maybe he should go into advertising, shit, […]

Cheap Trick Does Sgt. Pepper At The Bowl

A fan doesn’t care if his favorite act is on the chart, doesn’t care if someone else is the flavor of the moment, a fan joins the club, goes to the convention and listens to the albums nobody else knows, like Robin Zander’s solo debut on Interscope. That’s Arvind’s favorite album. OF ALL TIME! The […]

From All Over The World

We went to see "The T.A.M.I. Show" at the cemetery. Actually, I kind of dig the cemetery. There was one at the end of our street growing up. It was a cool place to ride my bike. Not that I’d want to get caught there overnight. And I’d actually been to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery […]

Sales Arcs

You can have a big debut, then what? Used to be the album drop date was the beginning. Now it’s more like the end. You’ve fired up all your publicity, you’ve got the fans at a fevered pitch, they buy the album the week it comes out and then? You’ve got to have more radio […]