What if we don’t need radio. What if we don’t need television? What if we don’t need record companies and movie studios? What if we don’t need money? Let’s say you had a thriving business. Wouldn’t you do your best to protect it? That’s what all of the foregoing entities possess, a beachhead, profits, and […]

They were DANCING! Last Thursday night I went to the Hotel Cafe to see Ed Sheeran. He was really quite special, he knew how to work the audience, he had them singing along, literally, helping him out with harmonies both on stage and off. Normally the acts there are nervous and unformed, beginning their careers. […]

My cable broke. The last time I bought stereo equipment it was 1999 and the MP3 revolution was still a year away. I was in the bathroom when an acrid smell wafted through the house. My Sansui burned up. My trusted integrated amp was no more. And unwilling to live without sound in my house […]

Spotify link – Electric Landlady "we’ve grown accustomed to treating ‘the music industry’ as synonymous with a handful of large recording companies."Why We Shouldn’t Worry About The (Alleged) Decline Of The Music Industry That’s from Timothy B. Lee’s report about Mike Masnick’s Midem presentation: The Sky Is Rising: The Entertainment Industry Is Large & Growing… […]