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Jim Carroll

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Lady Gaga and the business of cancellations

The costs involved in cancelling Lady Gaga’s tour shows us how she has become a lucrative pop act

You no longer have to sing in English to have a hit

How the rise of Psy and other stars from the east might well spell an end to Anglo-American dominance in pop

Time to answer THAT question again: why are Irish concert tickets so expensive?

It’s the question which never goes away, despite the fact that the answer is so darn tooting obvious.

Just how many musicians live and work in Dublin?

New Orleans may hype its music and musicians, but isn’t it time that Dublin did something similar with its music makers?

Music business lessons from Chief Keef and Fish

What rapper Chief Keef and veteran singer-songwriter Fish can tell us about music biz economics.

Think before you fume about the price of tickets for gigs

Despite a recent court case ruling in Baltimore about high ticket fees, giving out yards about Ticketmaster’s antics may be misplaced

Niche reissue labels’ success shows it pays to go retro

Every so often, you get a reminder that bright sparks still exist in the record label business. Everyone knows about the interesting labels like Glassnote or XL who continue to find new bands, groom them for greatness and send them …

The future of the music festival is 1993

It’s not just the record business who want to go back, way back, to a better time and place. I surely wasn’t the only one who was thinking “1993″ when Barcelona’s Primavera Sound announced their line-up yesterday. Blur, the Jesus …