I thought Taylor Swift was taking a year off. What has Bob Pittman ever done, other than take undeserved credit and trump up publicity to make it look like he’s a wunderkind when in reality he’s a self-satisfied huckster barely different from a used car salesman. Do we really believe he started MTV all by […]

We were in New York for Daniel Glass’s daughter’s wedding. Say that three times fast… Anyway, it was hot as hell. And the A/C in Felice’s mother’s apartment was on the fritz. But after a scorched night we hit the pavement that inspired "Summer In The City" and walked over to the Eugene O’Neill Theater […]

LUCIAN GRAINGE “‘It could be in five years that the digital landscape has the same choices as the physical landscape had 25 years ago,’ Mr. Grainge said.” Financial Times But it won’t. There’s one iTunes, one Google, one Facebook, one Netflix, one Amazon… Anyone who thinks the future of music retailing will resemble the brick […]

Only one will win. There’s one Amazon, one Facebook, one Twitter and there will be one streaming music service. Will it be MOG? Spotify has problems. It sounds crummy and uptake amongst kids is close to nonexistent. David Hyman will claim MOG sounds superior. That more tracks stream at 320 kbps, and the codec is […]