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1983 All Over Again
February 21, 2008 – 1:36 pm
Ah, 1983, I remember it well. I was selling 45 rpm, 7-inch singles for CBS Records (Michael Jackson’s Thriller had just been released) and the folks from headquarters brought in a new fangled thing called a Compact Disc, with a just-off-the-boat Japanese Sony CD player with a voltage converter. I think the CD they played [...]
A Little Place Of My Own
February 19, 2008 – 9:29 am
I was recently advised that hoteliers treat New York City much like a separate country within the United States. NYC has its own gravity and way of working. As major (and minor) hotel companies strive to find a little bit of differentiation within an increasingly monolithic industry, the New York Times profiles an architect who [...]
The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright
February 5, 2008 – 1:47 pm
Pro Sound News has published an article about the latest statistics for digital music downloading by “tweens”, those children between 9 and 14. While the slant in this article is decidedly negative (it is a trade publication after all), the stats show that most kids of this age group are using paid or legal downloading [...]
Grass Just As Broke On The Other Side Of The Fence
January 7, 2008 – 9:31 am
Natalie Merchant made headlines half a decade ago when she decided to leave the confines of a major label contract and go it alone, setting up her own independent label for her releases. Seen as a maverick move by the status quo, Merchant and her manager stated at the time that she would ultimately make [...]
Crying Wii Wii Wii All The Way Home
January 3, 2008 – 12:09 pm
The Wii seems to be inspiring lots of motion interactive uses beyond the games that play on the box. I can see a whole niche film industry spring up around this little hack. You could call it the Open Window movement.
DIY virtuoso Johnny Chung Lee has already more than proven himself with his Wiimote whiteboard [...]
The best article on the future of music, ever.
December 20, 2007 – 8:04 pm
I met David Byrne twice. Once when the Talking Heads played the Boomer Theater in Norman, Oklahoma on tour for their second album. We sat up in the old projection room aka green room sipping Heineken’s with the rest of the band. And once a few years later in the Stop Making Sense days when [...]
Next Year’s Marketing
November 29, 2007 – 3:36 pm
The predictions for what will be hot next are a staple at this time of year. This is true for consumer items and for business trends. I liked this list of marketing ideas for 2008.
Few marketing programs completely fulfill one’s hopes. In the new year, marketers should avoid over-hyped opportunities to focus on measuring success [...]
Is Music The New Merchandising?
October 11, 2007 – 8:44 am
Back in the day, recording artists made the bulk of their revenues from merchandising. Herbie Herbert, Journey’s burley manager, was the first person I was aware of who exploited this fact to great benefit. I was told that Journey made more money from merchandising sales and touring receipts than from their platinum albums.
I got a [...]