What Will Disappear: Discs It’s going to happen sooner than you think.  What with Apple introducing a $149 Nano and a $69 Shuffle today.  We’ve seen this movie again and again.  Old wave technology holds its own, with slight erosion, and then CAVES!  It happened in photography, it’s going to happen in music.  And the […]

Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dreamAdam raised a Cain In the hallway Andy Gould lamented that there wasn’t anybody shy of retirement age that could get up on stage and fete James Taylor. Oh, India Arie acquitted herself well.  And Keith Urban rocked the house.  But Keith Urban shares James […]

The edifice is cracking.  Those in power know.  If the end isn’t here, it’s coming. Something happened in the record business about five years back.  It ceased being fun. For thirty years, the music business has been driven by the major labels.  It’s been a top down affair.  The labels pick the acts, and those […]

Has the Super Bowl jumped the shark?  Could it be that it’s no longer an American ritual and merely a FOOTBALL GAME? Appears that way to me. Everything’s got a lifespan.  Just look at "Monday Night Football".  Nothing goes on forever.  It’s kind of like music videos.  Companies started to wonder, was it WORTH IT […]