Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Brouhaha

I wasn’t even going to bother commenting about this. After the induction of Blondie and Patti Smith and the exclusion of the performance of David Lee Roth. But what’s fascinating to me is the BLOWBACK! All over the Net, people aren’t debating which of the nominees should get in, but who was LEFT OUT! Donna […]

Radiohead

Radiohead In Rainbows Is this real? I’m standing in Gelson’s, shopping for dinner, and my BlackBerry starts to go wild. All with the above link. About a new Radiohead record. Then I get in front of a computer and I read that there’s been a hoax. That the site purporting to count down to Radiohead’s […]

Neil Young Tickets

Did I miss a memo here? Or was I living under a rock? Has Neil Young not been touring for over a decade? Is he an unavailable recluse deigning to come back to society to let us hear "Heart Of Gold" one more time? Is he going to play the hits and only the hits? […]

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Would this be a hit in an Amazon.com commercial? More importantly, would John Mellencamp have sold a SHITLOAD more records if his song had been featured in an APPLE ad instead of one for Chevy? Once again, we don’t have a piracy problem in the music business, we’ve got an EXPOSURE problem. Leslie Feist’s album […]