Op-Ed: The HuffPo Spotify Story
Are you getting this in your inbox? Some nobody named Blake Morgan who insists Spotify is screwing musicians wrote a letter that was posted on the HuffPo and then taken…
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Op-Ed: Jimmy Leaves Apple
There’s only room for one majordomo, and it’s not him. People forget that Jimmy was an independent, a record producer, who ultimately teamed with Ted Field to start a label,…
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Op-Ed: Taylor Swift Ticket Sales – By Bob Lefsetz
They blew it. Show business is about perception, not reality. And the perception is that Taylor Swift is a self-satisfied performer who needs to be the biggest and the baddest…
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Chappelle On Netflix
What kind of crazy bizarre world do we live in where a comedian has more impact than a musician? One in which the comedians function as individuals concerned with the…
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Don’t Bring Me Down
I still can’t believe Tom Petty’s dead. I’ve been living in the aughts. I decided to go to my bootleg site, where I used to live fifteen years ago, after…
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The Rich Will Get Richer
This is what streaming has wrought. The new income has lifted all boats, but the ones of stars much higher than those of the hoi polloi. Used to be a…
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The United States Of Christmas
And the Trumpers are saying the holiday’s been stolen. If you look at the Spotify US Top Fifty your eyes will bug out. Nine of the top ten are Christmas…
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How Hip-Hop Triumphed
By Embracing Streaming. That’s right, “you cannot get ahead if you stay behind“. While other formats railed against payouts, declaring that music had “value,” while they bitched about everything from…
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Evacuation
Should I stay or should I go? That’s what went through my head after I gained consciousness. Felice was shaking me, I’d been up so late, I’d ultimately taken a…
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