We were living in a hip-hop nation.  What happened? The Internet. Hip-hop evolved into a marketing juggernaut.  The sound of the people made by performers who would endorse any product, tie in with anybody willing to pay them.  And the marketers paid them.  And the mainstream media covered the shenanigans.  And then suddenly nobody wanted […]

No one knew what satellite radio was until Howard Stern signed on. And people hate Howard. Suddenly satellite radio went from something cool, the new iPod, into the same old thing, but you pay for it. I mean who wants to pay for Howard Stern?  Oh, his show is better than ever, but it’s all […]

This is the second time I’m writing about this today. The first time the story was how the mainstream press was completely out of it on this one, how this was truly a Web phenomenon. Now the story is how Alanis herself is completely silent, how the story is the story, what exactly happened here? […]

I’m not sure the problem is the rip rate… I just set up these new computer speakers, you can check them out at: AUX OUT I’ve been using the same $150 Cambridge SoundWorks system since the heyday of Napster, back in 2000, and this guy offered this $1000 system up. The very first thing I […]