If Apple were all-powerful, iTunes Radio would have killed Pandora. But it did not. You think the way everybody’s speculating next week Apple is gonna announce that Jimmy Iovine was cured from cancer and Steve Jobs was brought back from the dead. Most people don’t even think about on demand streaming services, YouTube serves them […]

It’s a ROCK format! So, are those heirloom or cherry tomatoes? Today it even made the L.A. “Times,” the statement by country music consultant Keith Hill that he advises stations not to play two women in a row, that males are the lettuce and women are the tomatoes in the salad. And the women are […]

I ran into him at the Sonos studio. I’d like to tell you what I learned about the company but it was all off the record. But I can tell you they want to bring hi-fi back. And I had a long conversation with Giles Martin, who’s been hired to help them achieve this. As […]

He thinks curation is bullshit. That’s right, we’ve been hearing for years that the solution to the industry’s problem, what’s going to save streaming, is curation. But Kyncl believes it’s all about fragmentation, not curation. Let’s start at the beginning. Kyncl is a bigwig at YouTube. Google him. And like the musicians bitching about not […]