I'm cheap. I'm like Clark Howard. When I get money hey I feel empowered. - Al Lorden (The Cheap Song)

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This weekly song review I've started doesn't exactly do for a songwriter what Oprah's book club does for an author but let's...

Give it up to your teasing babe. Lead me astray. Never knew that love could ever feel this way - Simon Fagan (Never Really Cried)

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Some estimates suggest that there are more than a million songs uploaded to the Internet each year by independent...

"Her tears are like diamonds on the floor and her diamonds bring me down" - Rob Thomas (Her Diamonds)

Today is the official release date of three time Grammy-award winning artist Rob Thomas' new single called Her Diamonds. It's the first single from his upcoming album entitled Cradlesong which hits...

I've recently gotten into Twitter. I've been using Facebook and Facebook has a space where you write short "status updates" that alert all of your friends to what you are doing at any particular moment or as to what's on your mind. I find Facebook to be good for keeping...

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"It's not show friends. It's show business. " - Bob Sugar (Jay Moore): Jerry McGuire (1996)

What will happen to the major labels?

The labels were only ever going to survive as long as they remained the powerful gatekeepers between the artists and...

"In the race to adopt new technologies, the music industry historically has finished just ahead of the Amish." - Stan Cornyn, former Warner Music Group executive

What is happening to the music industry?

In short, the traditional music industry has been beaten, battered and completely transformed by a perfect storm...

George Carlin liked to say, "When you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front-row seat."

He had an important impact on 20th century America. His "Seven Dirty Words" routine was central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C....

Of this whole Scott McClellan affair there is one fact that particularly stands out to me. In order to raise the argument that Scott McClellan may be disgruntled, the mainstream television media is pointing out that he was "forced out" of the White House back in April 2006. My question...

Now, before I get into this I want to say that party unity is very important. I will vote for and vigorously support this fall whoever gets the Democratic nomination. It will be up to the loser to do his or her best to unite the party and I will...

Have you seen the new ad the DNC is going to run against McCain? Apparently the Democrats are calling McCain out and they may be doing it today in order to take advantage of network and cable news coverage of the Pennsylvania Primary. It doesn't sound like the DNC has...

In Spain the government collects value added tax (VAT) on exchanges between retailers and consumers. It's similar to the sales tax in that it's an indirect tax that is collected from someone other than the person who actually bears the cost of the tax (namely the seller rather than...

José Luís Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain's recently re-elected Prime Minister has announced that his cabinet will, for the first time in history, be made up of more women than men. Of the 17 cabinet members nine are women. Zapatero is a self-proclaimed feminist and his previous cabinet sported an equal number...

I've been having a number of conversations with Democrat friends who are avidly supporting Obama's race for the nomination. I respect that and have said before that while I support Hillary Clinton I have nothing but praise for Senator Obama and will support him if he wins the nomination. What...

Last night, I was fortunate to attend the Elton John concert / Hillary Clinton fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan (never a lack of things to do here). I've been supporting Hillary Clinton's tumultuous race for the nomination and in spite of the diminishing likelihood of her securing...

It's been six years since 9-11 and the question everyone is asking is, "are we safer"? All the news channels are filling air time with the multi sides of that issue. What we can all agree upon is that 9/11 changed our country. For as far as I can see...