I was trying to steal Carrie Underwood’s new album, "Carnival Ride". Now I know why the Nashville establishment was up in arms, angry that she didn’t get more recognition by NARAS, her music is actually GOOD! She can sing, and is the beneficiary of the best material in Nashville, the end result is a product […]

I heard "Thunderstruck" on Sirius BuzzSaw today. "Back In Black" is the best hard rock album ever made. Do we credit Bon Scott, who supposedly helped write the tunes before he died, or Mutt Lange? It’s unclear, but all we know is AC/DC has never equaled the quality of that album since. But it came […]

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 […]

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 physical […]