Sarah McLachlan’s performance Tuesday night at the Merriweather Post Pavilion was a curious mix of opportunities.
If you follow the entertainment business at all, you’re probably well aware of “Hollywood accounting,” whereby very, very, very few entertainment products are technically “profitable,” even as they earn studios millions of dollars. A couple months ago, the Planet Money folks did a great episode explaining how this works in very simple terms. The really, really, really simplified version is that Hollywood sets up a separate corporation for each movie with the intent that this corporation will take on losses. The studio then charges the “film corporation” a huge fee (which creates a large part of the “expense” that leads… Read more »
Christofer Drew Ingle’s life has changed a lot since he signed up for a MySpace Music account at the tender age of sixteen.
New Jersey beaches usually don’t heat up until Memorial Day.
By nearly all measures, the festival, now in its 24th year, was bigger than ever with a record 13,022 music industry professionals registered.
Despite backlash from a controversial Twitter post, John Mayer let his music speak for itself Friday at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
Manchester Orchestra main man Andy Hull is a pretty hirsute dude. So when he starts talking about recording a new album and he mentions that his main goal is to make the listeners’ hair stand straight up, you know he means business.
All throughout the “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon on Friday night, the millions of people watching at home heard stories about the current situation on the ground in Haiti. Perhaps no participant is more intimate with the plight of the island nation than former President Bill Clinton, who acts as the United Nations’ special envoy to Haiti.
Last May, Derek Webb announced that his fourth studio album, Stockholm Syndrome, had been deemed too scandalous for release by his label, INO Records.
Dropkick Murphys have captured the intensity and camaraderie of their annual Boston hometown St. Patrick’s Day shows on Live on Lansdowne, Boston, a CD and DVD set for release March 16, 2010 via the group’s own Born & Bred Records.
