Would you be okay with that? Seriously, if you knew the clock was ticking, and you had little more than the length of a Kubrick movie to roll over the highlights of your life… What conversations do you still need…
Remaindered Links: September 22
Bill Strickland on artists and entrepreneurs: Keywords: entrepreneurship, leadership, music, thisbizlifelinks
What We Learned from Tonight’s Apprentice Elimination
Without giving anything away for our West Coast friends, tonight’s Apprentice (which was the best episode in a while — maybe since season two) showcased what can go wrong when you choose to be negative about a situation. I see…
Just because I’m a nice guy…
“…doesn’t mean I’m not sexy.” Mig wonders if he didn’t get chosen as the new lead singer of INXS because his fans are a little older. It certainly won’t hurt him when he releases his solo record…
Remaindered Links: September 21
Power of…You: Keywords: advice, katrina
Rock Star: INXS — Finale
It’s over… J.D.’s your new lead singer of INXS.
EMI Execs: Just Hanging Out
Newsweek’s international edition picks apart the state of EMI, now the third largest record company in the world. What’s the master strategy they’re following? Stay flexible and ready to react to the next completely unexpected thing that consumers want. WHAT?!…
Warner Music Execs Cash “Obscene” Bonus Checks
Ritch Esra smacks down Lyor Cohen and the rest of the Warner Music executive team, for cashing $21 million in salary and bonus checks (three times the company’s net operating revenue, on paper, anyway) in the same year they dropped…
Selling MP3s on your site is really easy.
For folks who want to see how easily you can sell MP3s on your site, visit our friends Pale Beneath the Blue. Try out their system for 99 cents, and envision how you can plug something this simple into your…
Steve Jobs says labels are greedy.
Why would you want to raise the price of a product with the most extraordinary profit margin in the history of the music business? Jobs, rightly, thinks these folks are nuts. And, in other news, Steve Jobs pointed at the…
Korn’s new record deal sets a bad example.
A few folks have been asking me to comment on EMI’s new deal with Korn. In a nutshell, the band is trading 25% of their across-the-board revenue for a $15 million upfront advance. It’s a risky move on both sides,…
Making Their Own Breaks
Newsweek profiles Gilli Moon and other artists using new technology to connect directly to their audiences.