Is Starbucks a band? Is it something that you discover and revel in, tell all your friends about and then abandon when the hoi polloi partake? All I hear about Starbucks is the coffee tastes burnt. And if you dig a bit deeper, everybody who testified about the vibe now tells a different story. How […]

New York Daily News and EMI Music OfferFree Exclusive Music Downloads to Readers Maybe not a big deal to file-traders, but in the world of major labels, it’s significant.  Instead of saying no, instead of locking the music up, suddenly EMI is looking for a way to give back, to engage consumers in music, to […]

And you wonder why music is in shit shape. When the problems of the world are blamed on west coast "hippy values" and money is king, you know we’ve strayed too far from the garden. Last time I checked, it was these "hippy values" that blew up the music business, 400,000 people went to Woodstock, […]

Give Neil Portnow credit for convincing the WGA that big time movie and television producers are a similar enemy to thieving consumers. That’s right.  When I see kids on the street, stealing music, I get pissed that they’ve got money for Ferraris, vacations in Bali, but THEY WON’T PAY FOR MUSIC! Or do we give […]