Archive for the 'Apple' Category


Bits & Bytes

Today’s Trent/NIN Story NIN Edition of Tap Tap Revenge Brings Licensed Content To Apple’s App Store Unfortunately, Tap Tap Revenge is cooler and more addictive than anything the major labels are purveying.  Trent knows this, but Doug Morris and Jimmy Iovine do not.  Trent says yes. The major label act calls his manager who calls […]

Genius Sidebar

Is Steve Jobs gonna die? I certainly hope not.  But all I know is his health has now overshadowed the company’s products.  And for that I blame the media. Same deal with Sarah Palin.  She’s a cute mom from the frontier, the public must love her!  Tell me how much they love her when she […]

Not Selling On iTunes

Isn’t this how the labels got in trouble to begin with?  By making customers buy an entire, overpriced CD to get the single, the only track they wanted, oftentimes the only good track on the album? Pulling acts from iTunes is akin to winning the pennant but refusing to play in the World Series because […]

Setting The Record Straight

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. […]