Every week the antiquated record industry trumpets its sales figures and the even more ancient media industry repeats them. And to say they’re unimpressive is to say you took the family goat to prom. Let’s look at Imagine Dragons. They’re a top ten act selling 25,000 records a week. 25k a week? That’s positively anemic […]

“character: strength and originality in a person’s nature” —New Oxford American English Dictionary It’s what you do when you lose. Everybody’s got a plan. But what happens when it goes haywire, when you hit roadblocks? Do you fold your tent or find another way, like water. Water. Blocked one way, it will find another. And […]

Power. That’s what the artists used to have. That’s what they’re leaving on the table. It’s as if Napster was started by the Fortune 500, in order to divert artists from their true calling, delineating the human condition and wielding the sheer numbers of their audience to exact change. In other words, if you don’t […]

It should be a full time job being a fan of your band. I just finished reading “Fast Company”‘s Amazon story. Amazon’s goal is to eliminate all competition, under the guise of being your go-to retailer, charging you for Prime, so you’ll spend even more, thrilled with faster delivery and some bells and whistles, like […]