She knows more about social media than anybody I know. I met Kendall at the Summit Series, back in September 2014, in Eden, Utah. She told me she was gonna sell…
The institution is bigger than the acts. You can’t play Coachella every year, but you can go there. For decades, the touring business was talent based, but the burgeoning festival…
It’s about the songs, not the band. It started with Journey. The voice of the act, Steve Perry, didn’t want to work, he needed an operation, so the rest of…
STAR Focuses on the single. JOURNEYMAN Focuses on the body of work. STAR Goes for immediate success. JOURNEYMAN Thinks about the long haul. STAR Says yes to everything. JOURNEYMAN Is…
Distribution is king, never forget it. All those cable channels disrupted by Netflix and the internet? The systems distributing them are doing just fine, better to own the pipe than…
Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats”: https://nyti.ms/2uIOK3O A big nothingburger. You might remember David Carr taking down Tribune management. A surgical strike revealing unknown information that could…
NEVER PROMOTE BEFORE AVAILABILITY You’re lucky if someone’s noticed, if they’re aware of what you’re advertising/promoting, in a world of endless messages once you’ve got someone hooked you need to…
He was telling me jokes. You never know who these people really are. I was talking to Shirley Manson on Tuesday and I had the two-dimensional image in my brain,…