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- Major Label Buster, Elliot Spitzer nailed in Prostitution Ring. Ouch!
- Unemployed, Mother of two must pay the RIAA over $200,000.
- 360 Deals Part II: How artists can usurp them
- Politicians blame record companies for failing business at Grammy Town Hall
- The Beatles won’t win an Oscar again.
- Radiohead vs. the Monster: 360 Deals or "pay what you want": Will Both Mean The End Of The Majors? (Feature)
- New Laws That Will Make You Laugh and Cheer
- Find Out Who Is Lying About Still Having Their Label Job
- Feds Will Help Labels and Artists Make $100,000,000 Next Year
- Yet Another CD Baby Cautionary Tale (Sigh)
- iPhone Fiasco: What was Steve thinking
- American Music Awards: Did winners thank the right people?
- Lime Wire Users Beware; The Sheriff Just Got a Brand New Cannon And It's Aimed At YOU!!!
August/September 2007 Newsletter
- Lime Wire and other P2P May Be On their Way Out
- Apple iPhone Blues
- Do I Owe My Lawyer Lunch
- Universal Gives iTunes A Bloody Nose
- Rolling Stone Sells it Soul
- Making Life Choices in the Music Business (re-print)
- Orchard First Internet Indie to Go Public
- BurnLounge Burn Out
- Is The Spector Trial a Fare One?
- Feds Punch Payola – ClearChannel Must Pay Up
- Ashanti Leaves a Scar On The Music Biz
- Music Business Dead? What Again?
- IS TOWER RECORD'S CLOSING THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE MUSIC BIZ?
Music Biz Gurus Who Say "Yes" Are Dead Wrong on this One. I'll Prove it.
- RIAA may have to expose secret files to pursue pirates.
- Universal sues MySpace again? What up?
- Is there life after Tower? Is that writing on the wall or bird droppings?
- Dee Snider: the New Feminist Cause Celeb?
- Lawyers In Love: Diversity And Inside Information Revealed At ABA Conference In Los Angeles
- FEATURE STORY: Feds Throw Publishers & ASCAP/BMI into The Dog House: New Ruling Could Cost Songwriters Billions
- The Eagles sing duet with Wal-Mart Executives?
- Will The CD Format Survive Another Decade?
- New York Club Scene Closed Forever
May 2006 Newsletter
- Are CD Fulfillment/aggregator's like CD Baby and Orchard in jeopardy? (Feature story)
- XM sells out, disses 1000s of its subscribers
- Keith Richards falls from a tree
January 2006 newsletter
- Big Wig Rock Managers Talk About Their Clients' Drug Use at LA Conference
- iPod Mania May Not Save Apple From Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
- The Stern Burn: Will It Bust Sirius' Booty?
September 2005 newsletter
- SoundScan Dumped By Majors?
- Jackson to Donate Neverland Ranch to Katrina Victims?
- Korn sponges $20,000,000 from EMI: creates new standard for artists?
April 2005 newsletter
- RIAA & LABELS ADMIT LIES ABOUT LOST REVENUE DUE TO FILE SHARING
March 2005 newsletter
- Buying Music Off Your Car Stereo May Finally Be Reality.
- Grammys Gone Mild: Show Gets A Dog Bone From Nielsen.
January 2005 newsletter
- Jitter, Dither, And Blither-Blather: The 1x vs. 4x debate: Part IV of my
"Don't Get Duped By The CD Duper" series.
December 2004 newsletter
- Moses Appears at The Hague, and the Wyndham Bel Age Hotel in LA.
- Help me with my next book.
- Don't Get Duped by the Duper, Part 3: When a CD is Not Really a CD And Won't Play.
November 2004 newsletter
- Will Radio Kill the Radio Star? Could Stern Burn Satellite Radio Before He Helps It?
- Royalty Recovery Project Update: Artists Don't Want Almost $1,000,000 In Back Royalties.
- The Truth About Barcodes And SoundScan. Getting Duped By The Duper, Part 2
September 2004 newsletter
- CD Replicator Scams Hit The Spotlight.
- Rick James, Bernstein, Barry, Ramone, and Branigan: Grim Reaper Tours The 80s Music Scene.
August 2004 newsletter
- BMG/Sony merger, can it actually be good for the indies?
- Schwarzenegger to recording artists, "Go audit your label!"
- Guthrie song "slandered" for use in political satire?
July 2004 newsletter
- Music In Space (or, Screw the Majors - But Use Protection)
"REISSUE" March 2003 newsletter
- War and the Music Business
April 2004 newsletter
- Soundscan casts serious doubt on the RIAA's claim of "lost sales." (Exclusive interview with both Soundscan rep and RIAA head, Cary Sherman.)
- Rejection Buster: New Program Puts an End to "thanks, but no thanks" Blues.
February 2004 newsletter
- RIAA Lawsuits: Some Say They're "Working," Are They Right? (FEATURE STORY)
- UNI Locks Up mp3 Artists and Throws Away the Key
- NY University Tosses Major Music Venue Out On Its Ass
- Janet's Boobs and Michael's Blues
- NAMM Summary.
December 2003 newsletter
- UNI label caught in drug/racketeering scam. Pays $53 Mil in damages.
- Punk rocker gets a street named after him. Makes Bush wait in line.
- Major Labels to give health care to artists they dump.
- Holiday thoughts from a Jewish Buddhist
- A new Moses Avalon book is planned.
November 2003 newsletter
- iTunes inspires new song sharks.
- Destiny's Child accused of stealing songs - again.
- BMI at war with Karaoke bars.
- UNI set to slim down: forces Jimmy Iovine to change his baseball cap.
September 2003 newsletter
- Universal slashes CD prices in half in hopes of boosting holiday
sales. Will artists be effected? - Webcaster's Alliance sues RIAA for price fixing Internet music rates.
- GE to buy Universal. It's official.
- Too cool for school? A message from Moses regarding recent events with a certain CD e-tailer.
August 2003 newsletter
- Pending law will allow the FBI to regulate music composers who use the Internet
- Tonos knocked down, but not knocked out!!
- Gibson releases the new "air guitar."
- XM Radio says I'm full of bunk: rebuts my article hinting at Clear Channel pressure
July 2003 newsletter
- Federal Agency rejects masturbation, out of hand. Cites Rock band as bad example.
- Farmer gets God to help him recreate Summer of Love Rock shows.
- Digital Satellite Radio: the dog that still won't hunt.
June 2003 newsletter
- FCC Flips US the bird
- ASCAP celebrates a court a decision that lets them pay songwriters MORE than instrumental composers.
- RIAA screams "unfair" to the California Senate. New Bill would make record companies report royalties accurately as a matter of law. Read the RIAA's lame excuses as to why they shouldn't.
May 2003 newsletter
- Record clubs get slammed with potential $100 Mill payout to songwriters
- Clear Channel fools the Fed in Payola shuffle.
- Computer companies buying Major Labels? Cool, but how will artists ever get paid now?
March 2003 newsletter
- War and the Music Business
February 2003 newsletter
- Future of Music Conference Considers Artists Irrelevant to Future of Music.
- BMG and UNI want new world order. One where artists don't have Lawyers.
- Future of Music Panel reveals that Foreign Distribution for US Artists not a given if you're signed to a multi-national major.
- Grammy summary
January 2003 newsletter
- Music Industry Armageddon Has Arrived - Major Labels Must Give $$$ to Record Buyers!
- RIAA's Smart New Policy: Sue Students and Alienate Their Prime Market
December 2002 newsletter
- The Future of Music And Its Enemies 2002
October 2002 newsletter
- Uncle Sam Robs The RIAA Blind
- Artists Gets Congress' Attention, But It May Be To Their Disadvantage
- James Brown Has More Family Troubles
September 2002 newsletter
- First Blood is Spilled at Record Industry Hearings - The War is On!
March 2002 newsletter
- Global Summit in New York Kicks Ass
- Industry "leader" Issues Warning
- Napster gets a new lease on life from courts
- Napster looking Healthier Than Majors in On-line Distribution: Artists Will Sue If Placed Online
- EMI States the Obvious But Nobody's Listening
- Best Music Industry Joke Ever is Written
February 2002 newsletter
- Harry Fox takes a $1M bribe from the RIAA to look the other way for a couple of years.
- RIAA cons the musician's union into a shortsighted compromise for
"Internet radio" royalties. - CD inventor thumbs their nose at the major's attempts to end CD piracy
- Suddenly the RIAA wants to be my pal.
November 2001 newsletter
- What Happens Next? The Business of Music after September 11th 2001
September 2001 newsletter
- Miami Herald Conspires with Emelio Estefan in Suppressing Artists
July 2001 newsletter
- PARADISE LOST: Old Boyz Network at Arista set up “LA” Reid as a Patsy.
March 2001 newsletter
- Garbage sues Universal for bullying them into making records
- Napster gets a new lease on life from courts
- Internet identities becoming hot issue for Artists as labels look to control the web
January 2001 newsletter
- Music will stay free for a small price: CDs to be put in cereal boxes.
- FarmClub/Uni is hauled into court for, of all things, copyright infringement.
- SoundScan makes liars out of the majors with annual report
- BMG approves of its own existence. The German Giant gives itself permission to take over the world.
- Harry Fox and the labels give each other nasty wedgies in war for royalty cash.
- Predictions for the coming year
December 2000 newsletter
- The Digital Revolution declared officially "over." Majors Win! Dot-coms lose.
- RIAA snitches on file sharer and gets him arrested (Editorial scoop)
- Napster's 40 Million "membership" may be more Red Herring than Trojan horse.
- SDMI gives prize money to hackers so that they don't look completely stupid
- BET will now be run by whitey as Viacom absorbs it.
- Y2k Bug back in the limelight
November 2000 newsletter
- Napster caught in a bold faced lie AOL thinks they can "cure " gays.
- Madonna declared more popular than Jesus MTV folds The Box and conspires to keep the black man down (Editorial scoop)
- RIAA loses an important General in its war on the Internet
- The Secure Digital Download Initiative apparently anything but: On-line music takes a giant leap sideways and our exclusive:
- Napster threatens a really nice guy and his son for infringing on their logo