Don’t make an album. And whatever you do, don’t send it to me! I don’t have time. And neither does anybody else. Except for your hard core fan base. Assuming you’ve got one. And they might not even be interested either. The album was a moneymaker. Let’s string together 10 or 12 tracks so we […]

It is important to study history, so one does not repeat the same mistakes. Don’t Guy Oseary, Arthur Fogel and Madge herself remember U2’s PopMart tour? The biggest, baddest band in the world, one beloved by Gen-X’ers everywhere (the true Gen-X, in its forties now, the one from Douglas Coupland’s novel), books stadiums and…DOESN’T SELL […]

As "Hits" continues to chronicle the downfall of the Warner Music Group, one must ask if major labels are even the story anymore. So Warner’s numbers tanked. It’s not like this is a surprise. After all, CD sales have been going down, down, down for years, unrelentingly. Hell, Warner’s market share improved recently, and the […]

You mean he’s finally going to release his archival material? We’ve been hearing about this since the seventies, how Neil Young is going to do this huge archival dump, ten albums… But it never happened. And continues not to happen. Even though stories continue to circulate. Now it appears to be for real. I don’t […]