Ways to make me feel like an old geezer, #142. What is Jessie J talking about at the top of “Price Tag?” Are these shout outs to people? Is this part of some Illuminati code? Has a sleeper cell been activated? UPDATE: Thanks to Danielle in the comments, I now know that the line goes: [...]

Musicians who check out spinme.com for music business news may want to skip past this post — it’s about one of my extracurricular projects. As always, I am so flattered and excited when I get to write for my friends at Yahoo! about careers. My editors asked me to look into some jobs that offer [...]

Indulge me over the next few days, since I’m catching up from some time on the road and wanting to use this space to document a few of my experiences that have nothing at all to do with the music business. Back in January, I enjoyed the chance to visit San Francisco for Macworld Expo. [...]

CP, you’ve got some very interesting thoughts in the comments that you left in each of my previous posts about BurnLounge. I’m not sure that I need to rehash what I’ve written about here, or here, or here. I might remind you that, until I started getting personal attacks and threats from BurnLounge supporters, I [...]

At some point, I seriously have to undertake a study of why it is — culturally — that audiences in the UK adore and embrace new music, while American audiences have to be dragged by the ankles to see a new band. My latest case study: Orson. These guys are from Hollywood. They sound great. [...]

You know the whole MySpace thing is out of hand when Ivy League universities have their own profiles. Technorati Tags: MySpace, Penn

The Executive Editor of CNet explains why Digital Rights Management tools are full of C.R.A.P. Whenever I lead a seminar on growing your audience, folks either understand why unrestricted MP3s are great for the independent music business, or they’re freaking out about the eighty cents in revenue they feel they lost because some street team [...]