TURNTABLE.FM Music Site Lets Users Play D.J. to Virtual, and Discerning, Crowds "Both Mr. Chasen and Mr. Goldstein declined to be interviewed." Those are the founders/creators of Turntable.fm. What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where someone refuses to do publicity, isn’t that how you spread the word, speaking to the […]

I loved playing, but I hated practicing. When I was six years old my parents schlepped me to Bridgeport for piano lessons. There were six of us munchkins, three per piano, it was a great thrill to be able to master the notes and play the tunes. But I refused to ride home with Margaret, […]

No dancing, no explosions, just music. Music lives on the Internet. This wouldn’t work half as well on the big screen, but sitting in front of the computer you feel like you’re literally on stage, in front of the very first row, Adele looks positively human. The lack of a scorched earth publicity campaign makes […]

Is anybody other than the major labels complaining the Internet has made music worse? That free music has ruined the incentive to create? That if we don’t overpay we’ll get lousier tunes? This fiction has been created by a well-compensated class that doesn’t realize it’s involved in an epic battle between the haves and the […]