My daughter would just never get involved with a married man 'cause I'd kill her if she did. And while she didn't quite live up to that billing, neither was she boring. In fact, she was often funny. Over the past year, not only unknown artists but traditional stars have premiered work on the Internet. Madonna, Ani Defranco, the Artist, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Tori Amos and others have gone straight to their fans with new or previously unreleased material a month or more before it hits the stores.
Technology holds the promise of revolutionizing the distribution of recorded music.
They're supporting it with live Internet broadcasts of their shows. If we can establish our fan base entirely over the Internet, that would be ideal, because then we wouldn't have any record company overhead to pay back. If we do that slowly, month to month, we get all the profit. It's like choosing between the devil you know and the wonderful possibility that you don't. Against a pulsing backdrop of Like a Virgin, Madonna devotees and look-alikes held a Madonna Fest in this Detroit suburb Sunday.