February 2008
12 posts
Environmentally Delicious
This past summer I happened to happily discover a little bakery on 1st avenue between 13th and 14th streets in the East Village called Birdbath, Neighborhood Green Bakery. I was drawn to its many neatly arranged stacks of cookies in the display window, and once inside, tasted the most delicious chocolate chip cookies I had ever eaten in my entire career as a cookie-lover. Besides offering the...
January 2008
3 posts
Quality = Quantity
I had a few lingering after-thoughts about Paul McGuinness’ recent speech. He accused P2P file sharing networks (via internet service providers) of stealing and profiting from the music industry’s content. Also recently, The Seattle Times published a pretty cool profile commemorating the 20th birthday of its hometown label, Sub Pop Records. Here is a list of Sub Pop’s top 10...
My Goodness, McGuinness!
Yesterday at Midem, Paul McGuinness (manager of U2) delivered quite the speech revealing his take on the future business model of the music industry: “What I’m trying do here today is identify a course of action that will benefit all: artists, labels, writers and publishers.” This was the first sentence of his speech! Sounds promising except for the fact that he left out...