you and your crew against me and the revolution?

"After Prince stopped playing, the two of us had brunch together. I was sitting so close to the diminutive legend that, as he ate, flecks of his omelette fell into my mouth."

Best Seats in the House from the New Yorker.

what's wrong with this picture?

Tomorrow's Billboard Top 200:

1. High School Musical 2
2. Talib Kweli
3. Hannah Montana 2
4. Hairspray
5. Now 25

#3 and #4 are too close to call. If we're not at rock bottom right now, I want to see what rock bottom looks like. Maybe Nicole Richie releasing a country album produced by the girls from Flavor of Love? I'm not sure...

bob lefsetz is a sissy

Recently, Bob Lefsetz wrote one of his normal letters to his distribution list of basically everyone in the music industry. He was raging about the setup of the new Eagles record, which is being released exclusively to Wal*Mart. In his letter, he said:

"The most famous Eagles cut is not "Take It Easy", but "Desperado"

I disagreed, so I responded to him:

Hey Bob -

Love your letter.

I found it interesting that you said "Desperado" is the most famous Eagles cut. I wholeheartedly disagree. "Hotel California" is the most famous Eagles cut; below you will find my argument:

In iTunes, the most popular Eagles track is "Hotel California" with "Take It Easy" and "Desperado" coming in at #2 and #3 respectively. In Soundscan, "Desperado" comes in at #2 (barely beating "Take it Easy" by 2,103 tracks). The tracks sales for "Desperado" and "Take it Easy" don't even reach 400k when they are combined!

And radio: "Desperado" is lucky to get a third of the spins that "Hotel California" gets each week.

Please don't publish this response, but I'm curious: what made you think "Desperado" is the most famous Eagles cut?

bk

AND HE RESPONDED!

"bk,

I could argue with you here, but I hear your point!
"Desperado"... Get older, it's got an internal meaning to many in the audience more than HC, which is seen as more of a great record..."

HE DIDN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION...AND HE TOLD ME TO GET OLDER!

I'm writing him back...

the truth via a sage

For an example of this theory, please refer to any comments thread on YouTube.

via Jake Lodwick co-founder of Vimeo

(under $20)

I've been sitting here trying to think of something witty enough to introduce this find. I don't think there is anything in the world that I could say that is worthy of setting up the following:

lvl 8 ogre mage seeks moon queen or druid

"Please send preferred adventure type and spell lists."

Incredible.

via Pound

god only knows

Email I received this morning:

Subject Line: bark meow squak purr yip tweet

Body:

As I sat in Bryant Park this morning listening to the Beach Boys play an innocuous lilt from their “later years” the following thought was formulated and I don’t feel badly about it:

It would have been so much better if the Beach Boys (or at least Brian Wilson) had died already.

I don’t even take it back…its true…they deserved to go out on top, in their prime, with dignity…not sharing a stage with Diane Sawyer. Their Woody’s have been replaced with Honda Elements and good luck finding a floral print buttondown in PacSun amidst the how-to-bang-hookers-like-a-rockstar T-shirts.

It was sad…I was legitimately bummed out for them, for America, for pop culture. You gotta do something…

Till her daddy takes the Scion away,

(name withheld)
Loan Administrator
Bank of Scotland USA

disney records

If I hear one more person say the follwing to me, I'm going to lose it:

"What the hell are the labels doing? Don't they know that nobody buys CDs anymore?"

Well you limewire-sharing non-Billboard Magazine-reading dolt, Disney's High School Musical is projected to sell over 700k units this week.

Measuring stick: Justin Timberlake's worldwide smash FutureSex/LoveSounds sold 684k in its first week. A 700k unit debut would be absolutely massive, and would only solidify the argument that TV is the REAL music business driver these days.

My opinion: HSM will be lucky to reach 680k. It's all about the TV this weekend. Stay tuned.

soulja boy

I can't explain it. Then again, I don't feel the need to explain it. This video made me really happy today.

starstruck

I've met quite a few famous musicians and music biz types through my current job, but I've never gotten that giddy starstruck school girl feeling. Although Usher was a complete and utter dick on the two occasions that I interacted with him, his presence didn't make me nervous.

Today I was 100% starstruck; but I feel nerdy about it. Today I met Rich Costey.

I'm a huge MUSE fan, but that's irrelevant. I was starstruck because the elite of the music biz consider Rich to be the best mix guy in the entire game.

More important than THAT: Billy Corgan wanted Rich to help orchestrate the return of the Pumpkins. Rich passed. He told Billy to his face.

THAT. IS. GANGSTA.

the #1 song in america

Just wait. We'll take over.