So you think all record companies are backwards… Anyway, the company with the most antiquated catalog, Rhino, is jumping into Spotify in a big way. They asked me to do a playlist every week. Of course I’m getting paid, would you do it for free? But to use my ancestral language, it’s bupkes. It’s a […]

I’m a fan. I found out about it via old media, straight media, the "New York Times". But it was the "Magazine", proving that long-form media is not dead. On ‘Radiolab,’ the Sound of Science Anyway, even though I make them, I’m not a podcast guy. I’d rather listen in real time. Be up to […]

All my old records are new again. Somewhere along the line we decided sound didn’t matter. Instead of purchasing ever more expensive components to get closer to the music a stereo became an all-in-one box, and the music was produced to be played upon it, all squashed with a level so high it drowned the […]

Are you watching this? It’s so EXCITING! It’s called the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, but all you’ve got to know is it’s the same crew from the Tour de France, but now they’re racing in Colorado, where the peaks touch the sky. Yesterday was a time trial. Down in the flats. Today they rode over […]