Google Set to Launch Streaming-Music Service as Early as This Week: Report Apple blew it. Isn’t it interesting that the Cupertino company is replicating the flaw of the major labels, holding on to a past paradigm, a veritable cash cow, until it is trumped by somebody living in the future. Streaming is now. The only […]

 Episode 384 – Huey Lewis Do you care? If none of Lewis’s tracks had broken through you’d be raving about him, the infectiousness of “I Want A New Drug,” but he and his band screwed up, they had hits! Very consciously. The first album was a dud. The second was a minor success with a […]

Downloads are killing the music business. There’s enough anti-streaming venom in music to kill the industry. Whether it be artists angry at Spotify payouts or labels still holding on to CDs and trumpeting downloads to investors, neither can see that streaming has already won. With Pandora. With YouTube. It’s what the customer wants, but the […]

Fantastic article in today’s “Washington Post”: Are Foodies Quietly Killing Rock-And-Roll? Normally I’d just tweet this, but it’s too important to flow down the rabbit hole of digital effluence, yes, that’s the dirty little secret of Twitter, very few people see your tweets and none of them last. There’s a belief in the world of […]