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Widespread Panic is a $14 million-per year corporation, and staffers receive health, dental, and retirement benefits. Also, Steve Miller knows where every penny of his royalties have gone…

Destiny’s Child Performs at $7.4M Bar Mitzvah

Jeff Tweedy and Larry Lessig discuss the challenges of creating art in a vacuum.

If Mark Cuban buys CBGB’s, he could start by cleaning the bathroom.

Simon Fuller cashes out.

David Hooper finally eats something, and encounters strange bedfellows in Austin…

The next time you kick your own butt for making a boneheaded mistake while promoting your music, remember that it could be worse. You could have paid somebody to screw it up even more, and they could have a trail…

We work in the only industry where incinerating and beating (Goodfellas-style) a piece of equipment is a legitimate part of a product demo.

…or so you’d think, since they’re trying to strongarm iTunes and other online music stores into raising their prices. Remember that you can jump into the paid-download game pretty easily by using a third-party distributor like CDBaby, or by adding…

Later this week, I’ve got a podcast about structuring your personal business in a way that shield you from lawsuits and allows you to appropriately open up a part of your business to outside investors. Here’s a cautionary tale of…

Sounds like Andy Lack is wondering if he should have stayed over at NBC…

Rafat points us at a stellar article in Seattle Weekly which chronicles five events that have a ripple effect on your career, even if you’re not in Seattle: Starbucks is taking over the record industry. Paul Allen is pulling out…