I wonder if today’s generation has it better, with their parents telling them they’re gifted, that they’re worldbeaters, that they deserve success. My upbringing was different. One day a girl with glasses came to play with my older sister. Maybe my father was feeling the solidarity, since he was a lifelong glasses wearer, long before […]

What I like most about this site is that the Dave Matthews Band hasn’t told anybody about it. Hasn’t issued a press release saying how cool they are, how much they love their fans. What I like almost as much is they haven’t sued someone to shut dontburnthepig.com down. The DMB is not as dumb […]

Some lawyer or some manager somewhere knows why VH1 can’t be streamed outside the U.S. As my mother would say, way to win friends and influence people. The reason the old infrastructure is dying, the reason I laugh when Doug Morris and the old farts make pronouncements, the reason legal solutions are not the answer, […]

TRACKS 1. Katy Perry "I Kissed A Girl" Sales this week: 162,951Percentage change: -7Weeks on: 11Cume: 1,487,745 She only sold 31,971 albums total. And, of those, 6,233 were digital. Seems like a hit today is the track and the track itself. I think the sale of one and a half million copies is significant. But […]