You mean he’s finally going to release his archival material?We’ve been hearing about this since the seventies, how Neil Young is going to do this huge archival dump, ten albums…But it never happened. And continues not to happen. Even though stories continue to circulate.Now it appears to be for real. I don’t […]

Once upon a time, you had to go to the gig to hear the music. You had to go to Fred’s cave, or the agora, or the synagogue or the concert hall. Then came the ability to record and reproduce. Suddenly, you could take the music with you. Play it at […]

Michael Fremer:A) Blu-ray is not a disaster. In fact, what’s happened is that Sony supplies a particular part that’s in such short supply now that player demand is up, there’s a serious bottleneck, but the stats are distorted. Blu-ray will succeed. People will not be downloading their movies in HD any time soon on a […]

Are we going to wait for decades, until bandwidth and desire conspire to deliver higher quality files, or is the music industry going to lead the charge in the distribution of higher quality digital music?Notice I didn’t say analog music. The vinyl LP is just fine. You can catalog its faults, distortion and […]