He not busy being born is busy dying. Or, if you prefer your musical references via the UK as opposed to the US, as Dave Edmunds once sang, Crawling from the wreckage, crawling from the wreckage, INTO A BRAND NEW CAR! In case you missed the memo, and I doubt you truly care, Arianna Huffington […]

There’s no buzz. How long until HBO cancels Bill Simmons? It’s gonna happen, hell, the new regime scrapped the second season of “Vinyl” after the show had already been picked up. You see the ratings sucked. And TV lives by statistics, they trump friends every time. Sure, it’s great to be in business with Mick […]

BuzzAngle MidYear Report In other words, Spotify, et al, beat YouTube, et al. There were 114,226,566,336 audio streams and 95,172,077,123 video streams. Last year there were 54,961,808,648 audio streams and 77,297,473,064 video streams. Audio streams increased by 107.8% and video streams by 23.1%. But the music industry is still fighting the last war. Focusing on […]

Apple in Talks to Acquire Jay Z’s Tidal Music Service It’s talent versus market share, old school versus new, Apple versus Spotify. Despite a reputation for innovation, we’ve learned the internet is mostly about consolidation, establishing a paradigm and then conquering all comers. Amazon owns shopping, Google owns search, Facebook owns social networking and…what exactly […]