It’s about the MONEY! I have a friend.  He had a joint venture label with a major company.  Said company wanted to buy him out.  He was on a major hot streak.  He didn’t know what to do.  Whether to continue to gamble or take the money.  His attorney said SOMETIMES YOU’VE GOT TO TAKE […]

This is the new era.  Communication is TWO-WAY!  If you don’t listen to your customers/fan base you’re going to create ill will.  Like…THE MAJOR LABELS! Don’t make your customers/fans your ENEMY!  Make them believe they’re in it WITH YOU!  This is why Andy Lack and Edgar Bronfman, Jr. and every exec spouting how people are […]

iTunes update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple? God, and I thought Steve Jobs was a Democrat. God, with no instructions, with no advance warning, who is the PRICK who thought this up.  And what’s the advantage to the customer?  Put Apple first.  Put the labels first.  And the consumer abandons you.  […]

Holy fuck, the labels are SCREWED! Did you watch the Macworld presentation?  It’s not easy, there are too many hits.  I couldn’t even get the video to go until now, at almost midnight.  The music business used to understand this paradigm.  One of UNDERPLAYING THE MARKET!  Instead of the baby band playing arenas the very […]