Lynne Kiesling Such is the assertion in an article in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) on how big box retailing is changing music retailing. In past decades, deejays and music critics helped shape musical trends. Today, many music industry executives agree, the big boxes have become the new tastemakers. Even as compact disc sales …
Michael Giberson By inclination I’m not favorably inclined toward the thesis of Barry Schwartz’s book, The Paradox of Choice: Why Less Is More. More choices a bad thing? Nah, my attitude is more “Don’t worry, be happy.” (Daniel Gilbert, in Stumbling on Happiness, helped me out a little here. Apparently people who want to ‘optimize’ …
Lynne Kiesling While we’re on the subject, I was fishing around about soccer and found the EPL Talk blog, where there’s a neat post about musicians who are mad about soccer. A disproportionate share of those listed are Manchester City fans (as am I), including: Johnny Marr (Manchester City). The former guitarist of The Smiths …
Michael Giberson XM and Sirius, two satellite radio networks, announced plans to merge yesterday. Amusingly, in the New York Times the story begins with “The nation’s two satellite radio services, Sirius and XM, announced …”, while in the Washington Post leads with ”XM and Sirius, the two satellite radio companies ….” In each case the …
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Lynne Kiesling Let me count the ways … [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sHXCs84iJc] Seeing and hearing Stewart Copeland back behind a drum kit just makes me all jelly-like inside. Sometime today they will announce the details of their upcoming reunion tour. Takes me back to 1983, when I drove all over the midwest to see them as many times …
Lynne Kiesling Speaking of music, the leader of my current favorite band, Franz Ferdinand, has written a book called Sound Bites, which is largely a compilation of his food columns for the Guardian. Alex was a chef before he was a rock star, and he writes with a lot of humor about his culinary experiences …
Lynne Kiesling Grant McCracken has a good post on the music industry’s recent behavior toward its customers. Lately there has been some softening toward digital music and fair use. But, as Grant asks, how to capture value? Here’s a thought. What if the music industry came up with a new pricing scheme? What if the …
Lynne Kiesling How cool is this? All of Mozart’s sheet music is now available online, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of his birth, at Digital Mozart Edition.
Michael Giberson As the fine folks at the Energy Legal Blog report: Illinois Considers Continuation of Retail Rate Freeze. Back in 1997, Illinois politicians cooked up the Illinois Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law, no doubt with ample input from industry and consumers in the state. The law mandated retail rate reductions of …
Michael Giberson From the musical section of the “who’da thunk it” department comes this little footnote (from a law journal article [PDF] on the uses of popular music in legal writing), attached to a remark that Justice Samuel Alito “once attended a ska music festival”: [15] Becker & Russakoff, supra note 13, available at 2006 …
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