Downloads are killing the music business. There’s enough anti-streaming venom in music to kill the industry. Whether it be artists angry at Spotify payouts or labels still holding on to CDs and trumpeting downloads to investors, neither can see that streaming has already won. With Pandora. With YouTube. It’s what the customer wants, but the […]

I know, I know, it’s a greatest hits album. But it’s got two new cuts and a remix. Very few artists have gone on to careers bigger than their predecessor bands. And on one hand we were rooting against Sting, because before he remade his personality in the last decade or so, he was so […]

Fantastic article in today’s “Washington Post”: Are Foodies Quietly Killing Rock-And-Roll? Normally I’d just tweet this, but it’s too important to flow down the rabbit hole of digital effluence, yes, that’s the dirty little secret of Twitter, very few people see your tweets and none of them last. There’s a belief in the world of […]

Since so many enjoyed my Buyer’s Guide… I just got an e-mail from a friend of mine: “My computer is dead, dead. Luckily everything is backed up. The bad news is I don’t have the time and money for this… I need to go buy a computer first thing in the morning. No more PC’s. […]