Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Slow Coachella

“Coachella tickets went on sale on Friday, Jan. 19. And four days later, tickets for the festival’s first weekend are still up for grabs —  for the first time in a decade.” “Coachella Festival sees slowest ticket sales in 10 years”: https://rb.gy/h2dbwd This is not a Coachella story, this is a music business story. It’s a […]

The Cidny Bullens Book

“TransElectric: My Life as a Cosmic Rock Star”: https://rb.gy/s679py You might not know who Cidny Bullens is, but you should read his book. Yet if you were a rock aficionado back in the seventies, and devoured all the information you could lay your hands on, of course you know who Cindy Bullens is, she’s the […]

The Death Of Pitchfork

This is not a harbinger of what’s to come, this is the last gasp of a dead paradigm. In other words, record reviews are history. We needed them. Because there was no way to hear most of the music. We needed guidance before we laid down our cold hard cash. And we got to the […]

Re-Madonna Lawsuit

GREAT post..truer words were never spoken. I am backstage caterer and artist/tour hospitality provider….Chase Center, Oracle, etc so I see things up close and personal. It’s a BUSINESS with timelines and deliverables. Hard core, for real. For instance, if my crew is 5 minutes late on a union coffee break, there may be a fine attached […]