IB tease

MEET THE PRESS: HITS industry insider I.B. Bad devotes his latest column to the Capitol Congress and the state of the Nation, but that doesn’t mean he’s suddenly switched to political punditry. The two entities that have caught his interest are Steve Barnett’s surging Capitol Music Group and Michael Rapino’s Live Nation, specifically the company’s Artist Nation management division, where it appears that change is in the air. But here’s something to consider: Neither Barnett nor Rapino is eligible to run for President of the United States since one’s a Brit and the other’s Canadian, but Prime Minister isn’t out of the question. (8/1a)