I just found out there’s a Bruce Hornsby boxed set.  Oh, you might not care, but that’s exactly the point. Been reading Lee Gomes in the "Wall Street Journal"?  Refuting "The Long Tail"?  He had some interesting statistics last week It May Be a Long Time Before the Long Tail Is Wagging the Web  but […]

Gnarls Barkley sold nearly 60,000 CDs last week. It’s not because people love the act, think it’s here to stay, believe that Gnarls Barkley is the next Beatles, but because they love the SINGLE! "Crazy" is one of the best tracks of the year.  But there’s nothing else on "St. Elsewhere" close in quality or […]

I cannot speak to the veracity of the report below, which is the source for numerous other postings on the Web. Yup, unlike a shitty band, an heinous policy decision is spread like wildfire using the new communication tools. But I’ve seen urban legends before. And no specific individual has popped up to say he’s […]

P2P No longer the story. People are trading more than ever, but the press is burned out on the topic. As are the insiders at music conferences. Bring up file-trading and people wince. But more people are downloading more files than ever before. THE MAJOR LABELS Playing a game of LOOK AT ME! As if […]