Country radio has got problems. They play the same songs FOREVER! The day its audience gets iPods and/or satellite radio, the tightly-controlled Nashville scene is gonna implode. Country fans are subjected to a weird combination of Top Forty from the sixties and the nineties. There’s a homey feel like the sixties, only hits, but there’s […]

Turn it on. Every casual listener I know is canceling his subscription. Then there are those who are diehards, who wouldn’t THINK of switching on FM, never mind AM, and don’t want to listen to iPods, because they never play anything you don’t KNOW! For a long time, I only listened to XM. But I’ve […]

John Batdorf and James Lee Stanley, performing their acoustic rearrangements of Stones songs, some solo stuff and recounting a bunch of rock history, like how Batdorf was signed to Ahmet’s Atlantic but then asked to be switched to Geffen’s Asylum for the second album and ultimately ended up on Clive’s Arista, which is the last […]

Verizon/iPhone The "Wall Street Journal" revealed that Steve Jobs approached Verizon. Wouldn’t you? Verizon Wireless is the kingpin, Cingular’s merger with AT&T might have given that entity a few more subscribers, but that merger was necessitated by the need to compete with the Verizon/Vodafone juggernaut. Verizon uses better technology, CDMA, and has fewer deadspots, partially […]