This is important. Historically, there’s been a buffer between star and audience.  And this buffer was managed by professionals who’d seen it all and told you how and when to play.  It was like everybody with a media profile had a coach.  And if you disobeyed him, you were booted from the team. But now, […]

Your files live on your handset. That’s what most people don’t know about the Spotify iPhone app.  That if you pay the monthly fee, not only can you stream anything you want online on your desktop, there’s automatic synching of approximately 2,000 tracks to your handheld.  So, it’s just like owning them.  And, you can […]

I’m balancing my checkbook. Yes, I’m one of those nerds.  Not only do I want to know how much money I’ve got, I get off on the numbers matching up, makes me recall elementary school, with all that addition and subtraction, makes me feel satisfied, amazed that these checks go out into the world and […]

I get this weekly e-mail from Scott Perry, entitled "New Music Tipsheet", he’s got a running commentary and this week he mentioned that "The Gap booked $11 million in revenue in a SINGLE DAY via a national Groupon takeover." That’s positively staggering. You can read the article Scott’s linking to here: Groupon Smashes Sales Records […]