Now that the left brain linear thinkers have come in and rewired all of your systems for maximum efficiency and cleaned out all of the right brain people who are impossible to valuate and are thus expendable, what is left for your ability to maintain the creative connection between your brand and your primary consumer?  [...]

OK, so we all are embracing new ways to expose new music and make it available for purchase at a time and in a way most convenient for the music fan.  I’m impressed that some of the oldest school companies on Earth are really getting creative in deploying assets to expose and monetize those exposures. [...]

No, I mean here, not Here.
When we all started out in Radio or Records, I don’t believe any of us saw ourselves in the positions we currently hold or certainly not doing the things we do every day.  How did we get here?  Did we aspire to do nine jobs simultaneously, often with diametrically opposed [...]

Unfortunately, it looks like consolidation at the record label level will continue for sometime, with fewer labels and even fewer promotion professionals evangelizing for new artists, creating a collapsing universe in the traditional sense and a big bang in the non-traditional media levels.
I must say that I really appreciate the multifaceted nature of the dilemma [...]