It’s a beautiful, sunny, Southern California Saturday and I’m killing time reading magazines before I up and go to parties. Yup, that’s why the summer is better than the winter, the extracurricular activities. First we’re stopping by at a Middlebury event, and if there’s time left thereafter, we’re going to Kevin Weaver’s house for an […]

If you’ve got my attention… Blow my mind. Sunday, I’d never heard of Craig Federighi. Monday, I couldn’t stop talking about him, because he was so damn good in the Apple presentation. Turns out, according the “Wall Street Journal,” in an article behind a paywall, that Mr. Federighi began at NeXT, moved to Apple with […]

LISTEN TO HER HEART You think you’re gonna take her away With your money and your cocaine Tom Petty not only fought to keep his records cheap, refusing to be the first act to charge a dollar more, he also told his label he wouldn’t change the above lyric for radio. Yup, they wanted “cocaine” […]

1. The major music business, the “new music” business, is built upon radio, it depends upon it. 2. There’s a fiction that we still live in a monoculture. This concept has been blown apart on television, where there are five hundred channels available, but the Luddites in radio still believe the Internet didn’t happen, that […]