Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse: DVD + CD
This past June, I saw Aimee Mann Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, an intimate little venue just under the Brooklyn Bridge....
More P2P Promotion: Napster Rescues Shaggy
I just finished Jacob Slichter’s So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star. Slichter is the drummer for Semisonic, which had a breakout...
[ I N S I D E ] With Radiohead’s Kid A, Capitol...
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...
Slowing CD sales ?
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...
Do Free Downloads = Lost Sales?
Very timely academic discussion of the impact of P2P downloading on the music industry in the Sunday New York Times. This past...
“The internet is like radio for us”
"The internet is like radio for us." Man, is that a money quote, or what? It comes from the Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy....
No Coincidences
The more I think about it, the more the coincidence between both U2 and Eminem being with the same label (Interscope/Geffen) becomes less...
Was U2’s P2P release a Marketing Ploy?
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...
Spitzer goes after the Music Industry
It must be my birthday or something: First Wal-Mart pushes for $10 CDs, and then Eliot Spitzer takes on our favorite industries: Music...
Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs
“There is some impending doom associated with us not helping them.” -unnamed music industry exec Does a CD have to cost...