U2 and the revenge of “old media”

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Have you noticed U2's gutsy distribution strategy for the newly released No Line on the Horizon? I don't mean the predictable release of the album on MySpace prior to its March 3 launch in stores -- but rather the heavy reliance on an allegedly dead medium, the compact disc.  At ...

Let us now praise old rock and rollers

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

On September 16, B.B. King turned 83, just weeks after releasing his latest recording, the well received One Kind Favor, and on the same day, 59-year-old Lindsey Buckingham blessed us with Gift of Screws, thus continuing a run of great music created by rock, country, and blues musicians who could ...

Baby Boomer fantasyland

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Have you heard of the new rock and roll amusement park, the Hard Rock Park? I'm not making this up. Hard Rock Park, opening June 2 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, offers a Led Zeppelin roller coaster, an "Eagles Life in the Fast Lane" coaster, and the Carnaby ...

Long road out of Wal-Mart

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

While the blogosphere was doting on Radiohead's digital release of In Rainbows, the Eagles were making their own attempt to sidestep the recording industry with the release of Long Road out of Eden. But I'm not so sure I get the Eagles' approach. For its first studio recording ...