Here’s my addition to last week’s vodcast, sorry if it was long and not informative enough. So, successful Twittering this time from my show on Sunday night, unfortunately no footage this time, and Twitpic is apparently completely unreliable from a Blackberry…if you’re Facebook friends with me you can see a few pics…below are links to the articles i read to prepare my little monologue…as you may notice, every week my facial hair’s been getting longer…barely even recognize myself! No shave november!
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/02/live-nation-and/
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i9f631ea10a4997bc3e00c33776e8675d
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ajG.OB5TGseY&pos=12
ONE,
H.
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Well, this sounds like pretty bad news for people like you who are going to shows regularly, and to artists that were hoping to be released of the grip of the music industry only to fall into the hands of the ticketing industry. I am not sure what are your plans for the rest of the travelogue, but if I were you would take it to the streets (so to speak…) Are there any grassroots attempts to resist this move? From music fans, artists, publications… What are the big guns saying about this? Are they for it? are they against it? Why? What does it all mean?
(Oh, and don’t let the record label take you out to lunch)
Jeffrey Lewis- Don’t Let the Record Label take you out to lunch from The Real UHF on Vimeo.
Ugh, I hate Comcast and I can’t see how involving them alleviates antitrust issues… Anyway here’s an article that talks about what else they get out of the deal. Apparently they are also trying to acquire NBC.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10627586/1/comcast-aims-to-assist-ticketmaster-deal.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEFI