Wal-Mart throws the gauntlet down on CD sales for the holiday: The retailing giant is discounting U2’s new CD by 37%, to $8.84...
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This past June, I saw Aimee Mann Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, an intimate little venue just under the Brooklyn Bridge....
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I just finished Jacob Slichter’s So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star. Slichter is the drummer for Semisonic, which had a breakout...
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Lee Rosenberg points us to an article by Bruce Webber in the now defunct site [I N S I D E] about Radiohead’s use of P2P (found...
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Consider the spike in GDP in the second half of 2003 preceded an increase in CD sales in early 2004. Now, with GDP slowing, might...
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Very timely academic discussion of the impact of P2P downloading on the music industry in the Sunday New York Times. This past...
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"The internet is like radio for us." Man, is that a money quote, or what? It comes from the Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy....
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The more I think about it, the more the coincidence between both U2 and Eminem being with the same label (Interscope/Geffen) becomes less...
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With the elections behind us, we can now get back down to business. Amongst all this Red State/Blue State stuff, we have been overlooking...
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It must be my birthday or something: First Wal-Mart pushes for $10 CDs, and then Eliot Spitzer takes on our favorite industries: Music...
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