Musicians seem all too prone to file for bankruptcy protection. It must be part of the career hazards that musicians face. Filing for bankruptcy protection does not always mean that the musician has no resources (look at Michael Jackson who had substantial assets, from the Neverland Ranch to an expensive ownership in the Beatles’ songs). Usually bankruptcy filings of famous people, including musicians are accompanied by substantial, and usually well known, financial troubles due to lawsuits, debts, or taxes.
Some argue that musicians are prone to file bankruptcy when they …

I’ve got 2 large boxes completely full of old cassette tapes (remember those?) in my closet. There are probably over 400 tapes sitting there, degrading, losing their magnetic information, slowly dissolving into silence, or perhaps more correctly, white noise.
Will I ever listen to any of these again? Probably not. Heck, I don’t even own a tape player. Even if I did want to listen to any of them one day, I’m sure I’d be considerably dissapointed in the sound quality (if there was any music still …

It’s been up for a little while already , but I just wanted to officially let everyone know about our new music history pages. You can look up what happened on today’s date in musical history right here: today in music history.