I recently sat down with Richard Bull on his “No Bull Sessions Podcast” to discuss the music business then and now. We got into some history, some fun stories, current trends, consumption and delivery, and how the business has changed as we look toward to the future. We share stories from Madonna to Guns & Roses, Cher and The Doors, Demi Lovato and J. Balvin, Cardi B and 360 label…

The (totally unironic) oral history of Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill (EW story) Abbey Konowitch, Maverick Records General Manager (1995) “There was no particular vision for the label at that point as much as there was to begin a label and have our toe in the water of pop culture. We had become successful, which…

Classic Rock and catalog albums outsold new albums for the first time in history last year As reported by Nielsen, 2015 marked the first time in U.S. history that new music was outsold by “catalog music” (albums that are at least 18 months old) by more than 4 million copies. This marks a dramatic shift from 2005,…

A month of great loss in music – David Bowie, Glenn Frey, and Paul Kantner We lost three important figures in music this month; David Bowie, an incredible voice, a gifted songwriter, and a pioneer of the glam rock movement who brought one of rock music’s first alter egos into the spotlight. Glenn Frey, the multiple Grammy-award…