Everything old is new again. So I’m in the bar at the Royal York in Toronto and I’m introduced to the Sennheiser rep. I do what any obnoxious denizen of the cultural landscape would do.  I ask her about Beats. I tell her I’m a dedicated Sennheiser fan, they’re my headphones of choice, I have […]

Indulge me. I’m downloading live shows.  And what’s incredible is I got this Billy Joel show from ’72 wherein his voice is still pure and high and when he sings "teller" in "The Ballad Of Billy Kid" I hear something I never did before, I get insight that has previously eluded me, even though I […]

The biggest story of the week is the death of the Flip camera.  From the cradle to the grave in four years.  I believe its death was collateral damage, any other company would have continued the business, but Cisco selling consumer products was like a record label selling blade servers, ridiculous. Still…what is the lifespan […]

Back when music was scarce, when it wasn’t free, when if you didn’t buy it you couldn’t hear it, unless you sat by the radio and hoped the station had taste as broad as yours, which was never ever the case, dedicated musos combed the cut-out bins.  That’s where we bought what we wanted to […]