"The problem with music today is not how much is one song, we have so much we can’t choose from it. Maybe I should get paid to listen to one song, there are so many things that’s wrong with today’s model and needs to change." Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi is one of the four founders of […]

If you’re a member of our car-obsessed Southern California culture, you know what that is.  Or maybe you’re just a fan of auto exotica.  Then again, maybe one has whizzed by you, and you’ve asked "What is that?" That is Audi’s answer to Ferrari.  And Lamborghini.  It’s more than a Porsche.  And at $125,000, it […]

I want you to read a book. I know that’s asking a lot.  You’ve got to buy it, you’ve got to dedicate time, and I’m not even sure you’ll be riveted. But you will be stunned.  Because you’ll see yourself in it. "Juliet, Naked" is the latest Nick Hornby novel.  Yes, the guy who wrote […]

I’m pissed off.  Someone I agreed to go to lunch with, and I won’t go to lunch with anybody, just worked me on a track.  One with synthetic drums akin to those manufactured by a TR-808 back in 1982.  That’s what’s wrong with mainstream music, it’s all lowest common denominator, that’s what people want to […]