Tag Archives: Business and Economics

compiled by Philippe Astor 10-20-04 MUSIC BUSINESS Robbie album sold on memory card U2 To Release Collectable Atomic Bomb Music Publishers Sign Deal on Web Radio SoundExchange Joins International Webcasting Agreement Downloads Now Top of the UK Pop Charts V2 RECORDS NEXT CUSTOMER FOR MUSICRYPT Warner Music Singapore To Come …

From time to time I mention the hard core splendiferousness that is Thomas Mulready and friends’ Cool Cleveland, an online and email newsletter dedicated to the real nuts and bolts of arts, politics, and community activism in Northeast Ohio. Its value transcends the geographical area because it is a prime …

compiled by Philippe Astor 10-18-04 MUSIC BUSINESS Sony BMG Sales Enterprise Taps Clyne, Morelli MIDEM 2005 : More Music Business Than Ever! Promo Only Music Delivery Software Launches New Escrow Service For Songs And Lyrics India : Counterfeit MP3 CDs flood markets DIGITAL MUSIC The End User: New key, old …

headlines and links for the week of 10-11-04, updated daily

What’s your favorite Halloween costume? I won a large costume contest in my early-20s as a urinal – as the night proceeded and the drinking accumulated, I had to be vigilant against the easily deceived. The most intricate, colorful and serious costumed gathering I can recall was when I DJ’d …

U2 has a new album coming out in November (Brendan Creecy reviews the single “Vertigo” here, Damon Muma here), was just nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but Bono has other things besides music on his mind – he spoke at the UK Labour Party Conference yesterday: …

I love these crazy old bodybuilders and fitness freaks – they carved out a niche in the culture when bulging muscles and a serious fitness regimen was considered freakish and obsessive, and they were inventors and entrepreneurs as well. The first “Mr. California” and inventor of the Universal exercise machine, …

Wharton says they are both full of shit.

If I were not an educated, reasonably articulate, pushy asshole who is willing to get on the phone and browbeat these vicious leeches, this could easily have been me at various points in my life, including a credit crunch situation we had not all that long ago: In a six-year …

Can a U.S. president “create” or “lose” jobs in the private sector? From the campaign rhetoric you’d think the leader of the free world has merely to focus his mighty brow upon the issue and jobs can be summoned from clay or a rib like Adam and Eve (“Watch yourself …