VINYL If one more print publication, on its way to extinction, killed by the Internet, does another story about the vinyl renaissance, I’m going to EXPLODE! Vinyl sounds better than CDs. I’m with you on this. Some people are buying albums for their artwork, others as fan totems, still others are actually listening to them. […]

THIS is a mistake. Have you heard the new Eagles album? I’m guessing no. Even though 3 million copies were moved by Wal-Mart, it was an impulse item for baby boomers. Sure, some hard core fans purchased the disc too, but if you don’t care about the Eagles, it’s like the album didn’t even come […]

So we went to dinner last night at an establishment called the China Club. It is a club, quite private, but our hotel got us in. It was on the thirteenth floor of a high rise. Hong Kong is an insiders town. If you don’t know someone, you’re out of the loop! Fascinating place… Kind […]

The skies have cleared and it’s absolutely beautiful right now. Looking out the window I see the sun setting in the west, over a cluster of small ships. It’s exotic and intriguing, like Asia itself. As for the first day of Music Matters… The best thing I heard came from Rob McDermott, manager of Linkin […]