This weekend’s time waster. It’s a fad.  A program to be superseded like spell checkers were incorporated into word processors, like Microsoft wrote its own browser to kill Netscape.  But right now, IT FEELS SO GOOD! Here’s the story.  A guy wrote a program that searches YouTube and Last.fm and creates a Web-based Spotify.  Free.  […]

Huh? Who cares! Just like our country, NARAS is run by an ineffectual President beholden to old, monied interests who refuses to lead and leaves the public out in the cold, completely absent from the equation. Once upon a time, the Grammys became relevant because the mainstream merged with the hip during the MTV era […]

Subject: Cracker/camper van Beethoven and Groupon. Strange but true. Read your article bob.  Nice piece. Largely you are right about the risk averse bakwards thinking folks who run the music business now. But strangely music types played a small but important role in the history of groupon.  In particular myself and my two bands. In […]

How does an artist go from being the most hated man in America to #1? By ignoring conventional wisdom.  By giving away music.  By utilizing Twitter.  By leaving his rough edges on, wearing them as a badge of honor. You’ve got to read the story about Kanye in today’s "Los Angeles Times".  I’ve been flirting […]