A smart conversation with a spooky smart manager / marketing visionary type.

Praverb has been doing an excellent run of interviews; unfortunately I had to come through and foul up his winning streak with my schizoid ranting. People I don’t even know are insisting this is a good read, though, so maybe give it a chance.

Craig Jenkins is always worth reading, but this was a standout — lots of strategic insights here in addition to the usual clean and hilarious writing style.

An insightful write-up from Broken Language — also, it should be noted, literally the only coverage of these charts so far that is anything but a press release rehash.

Obviously, worth reading. Get this into your life, daug.

An interesting interview from Across the Pond. Good advice from a sane human being.

Very interesting read from Paul Cantor. Food for thought.

The always-capable crew at Passion of the Weiss interview a talented and humble mammal with a lot to teach.

This has basically nothing to do with “music business” but you know you need to read this just off that title alone.

Interesting riff on an interesting business experiment.

Talking shop about that “digital multimedia platform tastemaker” hustle never gets old for music business nerds. This is for y’all.

J Live is awesome, Skinny Friedman is entertaining, this is an overall win for the human species. Also: lots of music business shop talk here.

Interesting experiment from Eminem; surely a better use of his time & talents than branded headphones or something. Giving Grind Time competitors a bigger platform and a “reality show” treatment should be … well … fucking weird, I guess. Fucking weird.

DatPiff is of course a nightmare wasteland — but it is a big and important nightmare wasteland, and this interview has a lot of interesting insights from the control room.