Satellite radio is an interesting business model. They have extremely high overhead (satellites definitely aren’t cheap), but the marginal cost of additional customers is basically zero. Their satellites are already up there beaming signals down to earth; if the signal hits one receiver or a million, it’s all the same to them.
In December, mom gifted [...]
Surprise surprise, not all country singers are “red state” die-hards (although there are plenty who are). I’ll do my my best to re-create a political spectrum based on select song lyrics.
What’s even more interesting is that Toby Keith is a pretty well known democrat, but you’d never know it from his songs. I guess [...]
I have these songs that for some reason strike a pretty vivid memory of a particular time and place. In Kenny Chesney’s song “I Go Back,” he sings about the different memories of places and stages of his life triggered by certain songs — Jack and Diane, Rock ‘n Me, and Only the Good Die [...]
First rule in business: Make it easy for your customers to pay.
I’ve been an iTunes customer for a long time. When I first set up my account, I had the option of creating an Apple ID or using my AIM login information. Not sure what the relationship was between Apple and AOL, but I reasoned [...]
While I have no musical talent to speak of, I do have a gift for coming up with great fake band names. All of these are way better than many real band names such as Tool, Bush, Destiny’s Child, The Mamas and the Papas, etc. Here’s a short list of cool fake band names I [...]
By now everybody’s probably already seen this video with a cute 4-year-old kid rocking out to the song “Boots On” by Randy Houser:
The reason I bring it up is because, having already seen the video, I bought the song on iTunes yesterday after their “Genius” tool recommended it for me. I wonder how many other [...]
There are talented artists in every genre, but can anyone top these profound songwriting gems? You can use the players to hear samples of each of the tracks.
In the Redneck category:
“My eyebrows ain’t plucked / there’s a gun in my truck.” –Brad Paisley
“Granny’s getting lit / she’s headed out to bingo.” –Jason Aldean
“I keep my [...]
Now nearly two years since living in the South, my drawl is gone, but a couple things remain: my love of sweet tea and country music. I guess I just buy into the small-town romanticism Nashville’s selling.
I also love Guitar Hero, which is strange because I am the least musically-inclined person around. So it’s cool [...]
