Re: BitTorrent activity on Paul McCartney’s "Kisses on the Bottom," the album is being traded at a fraction of comparable titles. Van Halen’s "A Different Kind Of Truth," also released yesterday, is being traded at about 4X the volume of "Kisses," and Leonard Cohen’s "Old Ideas" is seeing more than double the audience of McCartney’s […]

Updated: Paul McCartney Is Now Pulling His Albums from ‘All Streaming Services…’ Nobody gives a shit about his standards album anyway. Despite the reproduction of press releases in mainstream media, despite the reviews of said album in same, no one really cares. That’s the dirty little secret of being a classic rocker, you’re done, you’re […]

What if we don’t need radio. What if we don’t need television? What if we don’t need record companies and movie studios? What if we don’t need money? Let’s say you had a thriving business. Wouldn’t you do your best to protect it? That’s what all of the foregoing entities possess, a beachhead, profits, and […]

Spotify link – Electric Landlady "we’ve grown accustomed to treating ‘the music industry’ as synonymous with a handful of large recording companies."Why We Shouldn’t Worry About The (Alleged) Decline Of The Music Industry That’s from Timothy B. Lee’s report about Mike Masnick’s Midem presentation: The Sky Is Rising: The Entertainment Industry Is Large & Growing… […]