They were waiting in line to pay. One of my first stops in L.A. was at Tower Records, on Sunset. I had to make a pilgrimage, this was the place they opened early for Elton John, so he could buy 300-400 albums at a clip. I was impressed by the giant album covers adorning the […]

If this had happened even one year ago, it would be considered a big deal. But at this point, with iMeem streaming music, with music available free, with major labels having less power than ever before, it merits little more than a shrug. Now Mark Zuckerberg may have been revealed to be a barely pubescent […]

This is not the future of the music business, this is old men trying to cash in one more time to support their egregious, expansive, expensive lifestyles. How many times has Michael Cohl sold his company? Do you think anything different is going on here? That he’s not gussying up the "assets" to sell to […]

With the Net ablaze with talk of Jim Griffin’s P2P licensing scheme, Steve Jobs has worked in secret to pull off the staggering, mind-bending, game-changing acquisition of Universal Music. Despite Vivendi’s public vote of confidence in its music operation, the brass of the conglomerate has been trying to unload its music asset for years. The […]