Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Youthquake

This is society’s Napster moment. They never could kill P2P with the legal system. It took a bright twentysomething from a foreign country to save the record labels’ lunch. And now said labels are trying to survive by purchasing the distribution systems of much younger companies led by entrepreneurs. NO ONE running a major label […]

Compassion

Now wait just a second. There’s a flood in Texas and over a hundred people die and it was an unforeseen  act of God, but fire destroys homes in California and the fault lies with the mayor and the fire department and… I’m not saying I don’t care about the people who lost their lives […]

My Nakamichi 582

1 Ed Cherney told me to toss it. But he was making peace with the fact that he was going to die in a few months. I told him a bit of the backstory and he laughed and reiterated his point. The Nakamichi 582 was the ultimate cassette deck. This ain’t no Sony, no AIWA, […]

Mailbag

Subject: Re: Velvet Sundown Look up the artist “Nick Hustles” on Spotify. This is clearly AI too. This person is using a 60-70’s Soul sound, but using lyrical content from today’s world. Pretty creative. 220k monthly listeners and 100k+ subscribers on YouTube. Why are people bitching? They feel they deserve to know if it’s AI […]