A few months ago, I received a call from DJ GreenLantern. We often share music with each other that’s exciting and new. He told me about Pretty Lights. As I googled the electronic DJ, I realized how HUGELY successful he was, in his own right. While managed by a top management company in the industry,… [Read more…]
January 20, 2012
http://bit.ly/zDdkJy “Just consume, don’t produce, don’t share.” The content industries don’t want a distinction between what’s legal and illegal, that bit them in the ass already, with the Home Recording Act of 1992, wherein it was declared legal to make your own mixtapes, even share them. That horrified them. So they changed their game, they… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
Metallica taught us the cost of being on the wrong side. The band’s still paying the price. You’ve got to be in bed with your fans. They’re lifers, they’re your family. The record company employees come and go, as do the agents, promoters and even the managers. Somehow, in the last thirty years, music has… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
Why not ban digital cameras? Kodak declared bankruptcy this week. Legislation to ban digital cameras could have saved this company, a “jobs creator,” pillar of the community and long-time wonderful brand. One wonders why they didn’t make the effort? Would you have lobbied for that bill? A friend tells a story about Kodak. Apparently, they… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
And Lefsetz weighs in…. SOPA Blackout. By, Bob Lefsetz You don’t mess with the Web. Isn’t that what the battle between Napster and the music industry taught us? That despite having the law on your side you just can’t win? Meanwhile, the pirating of music is in its sunset years. People will pay for streaming… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
Michael Moore posted this blog and sent this email to his mailing list yesterday. I found it important enough to reprint here… STOP SOPA: Why MichaelMoore.com Will Be Blacked Out Wednesday, January 18th …a note from Michael Moore Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 Friends, My websites MichaelMoore.com and Mike’s High School Newspaper will both be going… [Read more…]
December 30, 2011
In retrospect, suing P2P traders was the beginning of the end. Don’t listen to the RIAA disinformation campaign. Music is the canary in the coal mine, the first business to be transformed by the Internet and still leading. What the music industry didn’t know was not only that it was being blindsided by P2P trading,… [Read more…]
December 24, 2011
So I’m riding the Eagle Bahn gondola and the twentysomethings are talking about Pandora and I ask them if they’ve tried Spotify radio yet. Silence. They were dumbfounded. They pegged me for an old fart. But after I did a bit of explaining we started talking music, what they listened to. And it all came… [Read more…]
December 23, 2011
So I’m reading Michael Lewis’s “Blind Side” about Lawrence Taylor and Bill Parcells says it’s not LT’s speed, his height or his build…but his will to win that makes him so successful. Do you need to win? If not, you’ll probably never make it in the music business. You might be able to schlep the… [Read more…]
December 21, 2011
Last night, I bought Young Jeezy’s TM103 from iTunes for $14.99. It seemed high in price even though it was 19 songs. I thought rap had finally dropped to $9.99 per Download at iTunes. Did Def Jam miss the memo? Perhaps they don’t know that Jeezy’s buzz isn’t as strong as it once was (the… [Read more…]
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January 21, 2012
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