Dear Bob, I really enjoy your eMails. I wanted to share something with you. Along the lines of the DIY approach you described here’s another tactic indie artists might consider. I’ve been doing it for all of our artists and although it’s hard to quantify the result, at least I know my CDs are getting […]

What is making it? Used to be a big fat contract with the major label and ubiquity. Is that still the paradigm? Really, unless you are pretty and make pop music, or mainstream hip-hop, what can the major label do for you? They specialize in carpet-bomb publicity campaigns, getting you featured in every medium they […]

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where the number one selling artist, DWARFING the first week numbers of almost every other act, can’t do shit live? How the fuck did we get here? With the media wanting stars, the labels delivering them, and the public scratching its collective head and […]

 Bob, Please utilize this math as you see fit, but I request you do not reprint this email as coming from me. You can even take credit for the math if you like. In general, the Live Earth stuff rubbed me the wrong way as it did you. But what really gets my goat and […]