Forget About Buying Music Online — People Don’t Even Want To STEAL Music Look at the pie chart, don’t read the analysis. Better yet, click on the link just above the pie chart and download the entire study and start reading, it’s utterly fascinating. First and foremost because it seems to be written by people […]

He took himself out of the debate. The kiss of death was when he said he was going to be nice.  That’s like Dick Cheney caring what the public thinks, that’s like Sarah Palin suddenly saying Obama’s great, that’s like Paul Krugman saying trickle down economics work.  A LEOPARD CAN’T CHANGE HIS SPOTS! In other […]

Read this article, it’s really good: "Digital DIY music platform Bandcamp finds its footing with artists like Amanda Palmer, Sufjan Stevens and RJD2" Which begs the question, what’s better, Bandcamp or Topspin?That’s exactly the question I asked on Twitter. Cathy Pellow of Sargent House tweeted this: @Lefsetz this is what i think of @Bandcamp – […]

People don’t know they want it because they don’t know what it is. Same deal with MTV…  Who wants to watch music on television?  Turns out EVERYBODY DOES!  And if you’re a student of history, you know the channel single-handedly pulled the record industry out of a prolonged slump.  Of course MTV became more valuable […]