A good friend called me a week ago to help him out driving at a music festival. It was great fun driving artists and execs around. Happy days.

Will the the fate of recorded music retail befall booksellers? If history is any measure, the book biz is not likely to rebuf the digital onslaught.

Ticketmaster has for a long time been the whipping boy that angry punters blamed for turning reasonably priced concert tickets into a pocket gouging exercise.

Paul McGuinness, arguably one of the most astute minds working in the music industry in the past three decades, wrote a profoundly insightful article on QC UK: How to save the music industry.

It is little wonder the industry is in such a parlous state when a club show for an artist such as Ice Cube costs $110.

Paul Resnikoff discussed album sale statistics presented at New Music Seminar in New York. Scary numbers that will be paralleled in book publishing soon.

Warner Music Group announced this morning that online revenues in their North American recording operations reached 47% of total recorded music revenue.